From 42a0bb3f71383b457a7db362f1c69e7afb96732b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Petr Mladek Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 17:00:33 -0700 Subject: printk/nmi: generic solution for safe printk in NMI 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 Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt Cc: Jan Kara Acked-by: Russell King [arm part] Cc: Daniel Thompson Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: David Miller Cc: Daniel Thompson Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/avr32/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'arch/avr32/Kconfig') diff --git a/arch/avr32/Kconfig b/arch/avr32/Kconfig index e43519a2ca89..7e75d45e20cd 100644 --- a/arch/avr32/Kconfig +++ b/arch/avr32/Kconfig @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ config AVR32 select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS select HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA + select HAVE_NMI help AVR32 is a high-performance 32-bit RISC microprocessor core, designed for cost-sensitive embedded applications, with particular -- cgit v1.2.3