[RFC] how to perform a safe NMI stack trace on all CPUs on x86?

[王龙 <wanglong@laoqinren.net>]

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Hi all,

In kernel before 3.19, when trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() is called on x86, 
it will trigger an NMI on each CPU and call show_regs(). But this can lead
to a hard lock up if the NMI comes in on another printk().

The commit a9edc88093287183ac934be44f295f183b2c62dd (x86/nmi: Perform a safe 
NMI stack trace on all CPUs) fix this problem on kernel mainline. when the NMI 
triggers, it switches the printk routine for that CPU to call a NMI safe printk 
function that records the printk in a per_cpu seq_buf descriptor. After all 
NMIs have finished recording its data, the seq_bufs are printed in a safe 
context. But how do we fix this problem in older version of kernel(eg, 3.10 stable)? 
The 3.10 stable has no "switch printk routine" and "seq_buf" infrastructures.

Could anyone give me some ideas?

Best Regards
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