On 3/17/2016 3:36 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 01:02:10PM -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote:

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Currently you can only request a backtrace of either all cpus, or
all cpus but yourself.  It can also be helpful to request a remote
backtrace of a single cpu, and since we want that, the logical
extension is to support a cpumask as the underlying primitive.

This change modifies the existing lib/nmi_backtrace.c code to take
a cpumask as its basic primitive, and modifies the linux/nmi.h code
to use either the old "all/all_but_self" arch methods, or the new
"cpumask" method, depending on which is available.

The existing clients of nmi_backtrace (arm and x86) are converted
to using the new cpumask approach in this change.

So the past days I've been staring at RCU stall warns, and they can use
a little of this. Their remote stack unwinds are less than useful.

Were you suggesting this as an improvement for a possible v3, or just a
kind of implicit ack of the patch series?  Thanks!

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Chris Metcalf, Mellanox Technologies
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