debug lockups: Improve lockup detection, fix generic arch fallback

As Andrew noted, my previous patch ("debug lockups: Improve lockup
detection") broke/removed SysRq-L support from architecture that do
not provide a __trigger_all_cpu_backtrace implementation.

Restore a fallback path and clean up the SysRq-L machinery a bit:

 - Rename the arch method to arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace()

 - Simplify the define

 - Document the method a bit - in the hope of more architectures
   adding support for it.

[ The patch touches Sparc code for the rename. ]

Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
LKML-Reference: <20090802140809.7ec4bb6b.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/nmi.h b/include/linux/nmi.h
index 29af2d5df097..b752e807adde 100644
--- a/include/linux/nmi.h
+++ b/include/linux/nmi.h
@@ -28,8 +28,23 @@ static inline void acpi_nmi_disable(void) { }
 static inline void acpi_nmi_enable(void) { }
 #endif
 
-#ifndef trigger_all_cpu_backtrace
-#define trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() do { } while (0)
+/*
+ * Create trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() out of the arch-provided
+ * base function. Return whether such support was available,
+ * to allow calling code to fall back to some other mechanism:
+ */
+#ifdef arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace
+static inline bool trigger_all_cpu_backtrace(void)
+{
+        arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace();
+
+        return true;
+}
+#else
+static inline bool trigger_all_cpu_backtrace(void)
+{
+        return false;
+}
 #endif
 
 #endif