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authorPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>2016-05-20 17:00:42 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-05-20 17:58:30 -0700
commitcf9b1106c81c45cde02208fca49d3f3e4ab6ee74 (patch)
tree256ea3446fd1ea5ca9ac111f74ab53b1b2426746 /kernel/printk
parent427934b8714ec130b068d1c9d88f25b24aaede32 (diff)
printk/nmi: flush NMI messages on the system panic
In NMI context, printk() messages are stored into per-CPU buffers to avoid a possible deadlock. They are normally flushed to the main ring buffer via an IRQ work. But the work is never called when the system calls panic() in the very same NMI handler. This patch tries to flush NMI buffers before the crash dump is generated. In this case it does not risk a double release and bails out when the logbuf_lock is already taken. The aim is to get the messages into the main ring buffer when possible. It makes them better accessible in the vmcore. Then the patch tries to flush the buffers second time when other CPUs are down. It might be more aggressive and reset logbuf_lock. The aim is to get the messages available for the consequent kmsg_dump() and console_flush_on_panic() calls. The patch causes vprintk_emit() to be called even in NMI context again. But it is done via printk_deferred() so that the console handling is skipped. Consoles use internal locks and we could not prevent a deadlock easily. They are explicitly called later when the crash dump is not generated, see console_flush_on_panic(). Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/printk')
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk/internal.h2
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk/nmi.c39
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk/printk.c2
3 files changed, 41 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk/internal.h b/kernel/printk/internal.h
index 341bedccc065..7fd2838fa417 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/internal.h
+++ b/kernel/printk/internal.h
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ int __printf(1, 0) vprintk_default(const char *fmt, va_list args);
#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK_NMI
+extern raw_spinlock_t logbuf_lock;
+
/*
* printk() could not take logbuf_lock in NMI context. Instead,
* it temporary stores the strings into a per-CPU buffer.
diff --git a/kernel/printk/nmi.c b/kernel/printk/nmi.c
index bf08557d7e3d..b69eb8a2876f 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/nmi.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/nmi.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
#include <linux/preempt.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
+#include <linux/debug_locks.h>
#include <linux/smp.h>
#include <linux/cpumask.h>
#include <linux/irq_work.h>
@@ -106,7 +107,16 @@ static void print_nmi_seq_line(struct nmi_seq_buf *s, int start, int end)
{
const char *buf = s->buffer + start;
- printk("%.*s", (end - start) + 1, buf);
+ /*
+ * The buffers are flushed in NMI only on panic. The messages must
+ * go only into the ring buffer at this stage. Consoles will get
+ * explicitly called later when a crashdump is not generated.
+ */
+ if (in_nmi())
+ printk_deferred("%.*s", (end - start) + 1, buf);
+ else
+ printk("%.*s", (end - start) + 1, buf);
+
}
/*
@@ -194,6 +204,33 @@ void printk_nmi_flush(void)
__printk_nmi_flush(&per_cpu(nmi_print_seq, cpu).work);
}
+/**
+ * printk_nmi_flush_on_panic - flush all per-cpu nmi buffers when the system
+ * goes down.
+ *
+ * Similar to printk_nmi_flush() but it can be called even in NMI context when
+ * the system goes down. It does the best effort to get NMI messages into
+ * the main ring buffer.
+ *
+ * Note that it could try harder when there is only one CPU online.
+ */
+void printk_nmi_flush_on_panic(void)
+{
+ /*
+ * Make sure that we could access the main ring buffer.
+ * Do not risk a double release when more CPUs are up.
+ */
+ if (in_nmi() && raw_spin_is_locked(&logbuf_lock)) {
+ if (num_online_cpus() > 1)
+ return;
+
+ debug_locks_off();
+ raw_spin_lock_init(&logbuf_lock);
+ }
+
+ printk_nmi_flush();
+}
+
void __init printk_nmi_init(void)
{
int cpu;
diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index e38579d730f4..60cdf6386763 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ __packed __aligned(4)
* within the scheduler's rq lock. It must be released before calling
* console_unlock() or anything else that might wake up a process.
*/
-static DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(logbuf_lock);
+DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(logbuf_lock);
#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK
DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(log_wait);