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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt4
-rw-r--r--lib/nmi_backtrace.c6
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index bdc1f33fd3d1..5e6d19182c5f 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3073,6 +3073,10 @@
and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
migration from NFSv2/v3.
+ nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
+ Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
+ NMI stack-backtrace request.
+
nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
when a NMI is triggered.
Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
diff --git a/lib/nmi_backtrace.c b/lib/nmi_backtrace.c
index 15ca78e1c7d4..8abe1870dba4 100644
--- a/lib/nmi_backtrace.c
+++ b/lib/nmi_backtrace.c
@@ -85,12 +85,16 @@ void nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace(const cpumask_t *mask,
put_cpu();
}
+// Dump stacks even for idle CPUs.
+static bool backtrace_idle;
+module_param(backtrace_idle, bool, 0644);
+
bool nmi_cpu_backtrace(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
int cpu = smp_processor_id();
if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, to_cpumask(backtrace_mask))) {
- if (regs && cpu_in_idle(instruction_pointer(regs))) {
+ if (!READ_ONCE(backtrace_idle) && regs && cpu_in_idle(instruction_pointer(regs))) {
pr_warn("NMI backtrace for cpu %d skipped: idling at %pS\n",
cpu, (void *)instruction_pointer(regs));
} else {