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* printk/nmi: generic solution for safe printk in NMIPetr Mladek2016-05-201-84/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | printk() takes some locks and could not be used a safe way in NMI context. The chance of a deadlock is real especially when printing stacks from all CPUs. This particular problem has been addressed on x86 by the commit a9edc8809328 ("x86/nmi: Perform a safe NMI stack trace on all CPUs"). The patchset brings two big advantages. First, it makes the NMI backtraces safe on all architectures for free. Second, it makes all NMI messages almost safe on all architectures (the temporary buffer is limited. We still should keep the number of messages in NMI context at minimum). Note that there already are several messages printed in NMI context: WARN_ON(in_nmi()), BUG_ON(in_nmi()), anything being printed out from MCE handlers. These are not easy to avoid. This patch reuses most of the code and makes it generic. It is useful for all messages and architectures that support NMI. The alternative printk_func is set when entering and is reseted when leaving NMI context. It queues IRQ work to copy the messages into the main ring buffer in a safe context. __printk_nmi_flush() copies all available messages and reset the buffer. Then we could use a simple cmpxchg operations to get synchronized with writers. There is also used a spinlock to get synchronized with other flushers. We do not longer use seq_buf because it depends on external lock. It would be hard to make all supported operations safe for a lockless use. It would be confusing and error prone to make only some operations safe. The code is put into separate printk/nmi.c as suggested by Steven Rostedt. It needs a per-CPU buffer and is compiled only on architectures that call nmi_enter(). This is achieved by the new HAVE_NMI Kconfig flag. The are MN10300 and Xtensa architectures. We need to clean up NMI handling there first. Let's do it separately. The patch is heavily based on the draft from Peter Zijlstra, see https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/10/327 [arnd@arndb.de: printk-nmi: use %zu format string for size_t] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: min_t->min - all types are size_t here] Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> [arm part] Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* ARM: 8439/1: Fix backtrace generation when IPI is maskedDaniel Thompson2015-10-031-1/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently on ARM when <SysRq-L> is triggered from an interrupt handler (e.g. a SysRq issued using UART or kbd) the main CPU will wedge for ten seconds with interrupts masked before issuing a backtrace for every CPU except itself. The new backtrace code introduced by commit 96f0e00378d4 ("ARM: add basic support for on-demand backtrace of other CPUs") does not work correctly when run from an interrupt handler because IPI_CPU_BACKTRACE is used to generate the backtrace on all CPUs but cannot preempt the current calling context. This can be fixed by detecting that the calling context cannot be preempted and issuing the backtrace directly in this case. Issuing directly leaves us without any pt_regs to pass to nmi_cpu_backtrace() so we also modify the generic code to call dump_stack() when its argument is NULL. Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* nmi: create generic NMI backtrace implementationRussell King2015-07-171-0/+162
x86s NMI backtrace implementation (for arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace()) is fairly generic in nature - the only architecture specific bits are the act of raising the NMI to other CPUs, and reporting the status of the NMI handler. These are fairly simple to factor out, and produce a generic implementation which can be shared between ARM and x86. Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>