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Merge tag 'printk-for-6.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux
Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:
"This is the "last" part of the support for the new nbcon consoles.
Where "nbcon" stays for "No Big console lock CONsoles" aka not under
the console_lock.
New callbacks are added to struct console:
- write_thread() for flushing nbcon consoles in task context.
- write_atomic() for flushing nbcon consoles in atomic context,
including NMI.
- con->device_lock() and device_unlock() for taking the driver
specific lock, for example, port->lock.
New printk-specific kthreads are created:
- per-console kthreads which get responsible for flushing normal
priority messages on nbcon consoles.
- thread which gets responsible for flushing normal priority messages
on all consoles when CONFIG_RT enabled.
The new callbacks are called under a special per-console lock which
has already been added back in v6.7. It allows to distinguish three
severities: normal, emergency, and panic. A context with a higher
priority could take over the ownership when it is safe even in the
middle of handling a record. The panic context could do it even when
it is not safe. But it is allowed only for the final desperate flush
before entering the infinite loop.
The new lock helps to flush the messages directly in emergency and
panic contexts. But it is not enough in all situations:
- console_lock() is still need for synchronization against boot
consoles.
- con->device_lock() is need for synchronization against other
operations on the same HW, e.g. serial port speed setting,
non-printk related read/write.
The dependency on con->device_lock() is mutual. Any code taking the
driver specific lock has to acquire the related nbcon console context
as well. For example, see the new uart_port_lock() API. It provides
the necessary synchronization against emergency and panic contexts
where the messages are flushed only under the new per-console lock.
Maybe surprisingly, a quite tricky part is the decision how to flush
the consoles in various situations. It has to take into account:
- message priority: normal, emergency, panic
- scheduling context: task, atomic, deferred_legacy
- registered consoles: boot, legacy, nbcon
- threads are running: early boot, suspend, shutdown, panic
- caller: printk(), pr_flush(), printk_flush_in_panic(),
console_unlock(), console_start(), ...
The primary decision is made in printk_get_console_flush_type(). It
creates a hint what the caller should do:
- flush nbcon consoles directly or via the kthread
- call the legacy loop (console_unlock()) directly or via irq_work
The existing behavior is preserved for the legacy consoles. The only
exception is that they are not longer flushed directly from printk()
in panic() before CPUs are stopped. But this blocking happens only
when at least one nbcon console is registered. The motivation is to
increase a chance to produce the crash dump. They legacy consoles
might create a deadlock in compare with nbcon consoles. The nbcon
console should allow to see the messages even when the crash dump
fails.
There are three possible ways how nbcon consoles are flushed:
- The per-nbcon-console kthread is responsible for flushing messages
added with the normal priority. This is the default mode.
- The legacy loop, aka console_unlock(), is used when there is still
a boot console registered. There is no easy way how to match an
early console driver with a nbcon console driver. And the
console_lock() provides the only reliable serialization at the
moment.
The legacy loop uses either con->write_atomic() or
con->write_thread() callbacks depending on whether it is allowed to
schedule. The atomic variant has to be used from printk().
- In other situations, the messages are flushed directly using
write_atomic() which can be called in any context, including NMI.
It is primary needed during early boot or shutdown, in emergency
situations, and panic.
The emergency priority is used by a code called within
nbcon_cpu_emergency_enter()/exit(). At the moment, it is used in four
situations: WARN(), Oops, lockdep, and RCU stall reports.
Finally, there is no nbcon console at the moment. It means that the
changes should _not_ modify the existing behavior. The only exception
is CONFIG_RT which would force offloading the legacy loop, for normal
priority context, into the dedicated kthread"
* tag 'printk-for-6.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux: (54 commits)
printk: Avoid false positive lockdep report for legacy printing
printk: nbcon: Assign nice -20 for printing threads
printk: Implement legacy printer kthread for PREEMPT_RT
tty: sysfs: Add nbcon support for 'active'
proc: Add nbcon support for /proc/consoles
proc: consoles: Add notation to c_start/c_stop
printk: nbcon: Show replay message on takeover
printk: Provide helper for message prepending
printk: nbcon: Rely on kthreads for normal operation
printk: nbcon: Use thread callback if in task context for legacy
printk: nbcon: Relocate nbcon_atomic_emit_one()
printk: nbcon: Introduce printer kthreads
printk: nbcon: Init @nbcon_seq to highest possible
printk: nbcon: Add context to usable() and emit()
printk: Flush console on unregister_console()
printk: Fail pr_flush() if before SYSTEM_SCHEDULING
printk: nbcon: Add function for printers to reacquire ownership
printk: nbcon: Use raw_cpu_ptr() instead of open coding
printk: Use the BITS_PER_LONG macro
lockdep: Mark emergency sections in lockdep splats
...
When building serial_base as a module, modpost fails with the following
error message:
ERROR: modpost: "match_devname_and_update_preferred_console"
[drivers/tty/serial/serial_base.ko] undefined!
Export the symbol to allow using it from modules.
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202409071312.qlwtTOS1-lkp@intel.com/
Fixes: 12c91cec31 ("serial: core: Add serial_base_match_and_update_preferred_console()")
Signed-off-by: Yu Liao <liaoyu15@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240909075652.747370-1-liaoyu15@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Legacy console printing from printk() caller context may invoke
the console driver from atomic context. This leads to a lockdep
splat because the console driver will acquire a sleeping lock
and the caller may already hold a spinning lock. This is noticed
by lockdep on !PREEMPT_RT configurations because it will lead to
a problem on PREEMPT_RT.
However, on PREEMPT_RT the printing path from atomic context is
always avoided and the console driver is always invoked from a
dedicated thread. Thus the lockdep splat on !PREEMPT_RT is a
false positive.
For !PREEMPT_RT override the lock-context before invoking the
console driver to avoid the false positive.
Do not override the lock-context for PREEMPT_RT in order to
allow lockdep to catch any real locking context issues related
to the write callback usage.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240904120536.115780-18-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
It is important that console printing threads are scheduled
shortly after a printk call and with generous runtime budgets.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240904120536.115780-17-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
The write() callback of legacy consoles usually makes use of
spinlocks. This is not permitted with PREEMPT_RT in atomic
contexts.
For PREEMPT_RT, create a new kthread to handle printing of all
the legacy consoles (and nbcon consoles if boot consoles are
registered). This allows legacy consoles to work on PREEMPT_RT
without requiring modification. (However they will not have
the reliability properties guaranteed by nbcon atomic
consoles.)
Use the existing printk_kthreads_check_locked() to start/stop
the legacy kthread as needed.
Introduce the macro force_legacy_kthread() to query if the
forced threading of legacy consoles is in effect. Although
currently only enabled for PREEMPT_RT, this acts as a simple
mechanism for the future to allow other preemption models to
easily take advantage of the non-interference property provided
by the legacy kthread.
When force_legacy_kthread() is true, the legacy kthread
fulfills the role of the console_flush_type @legacy_offload by
waking the legacy kthread instead of printing via the
console_lock in the irq_work. If the legacy kthread is not
yet available, no legacy printing takes place (unless in
panic).
If for some reason the legacy kthread fails to create, any
legacy consoles are unregistered. With force_legacy_kthread(),
the legacy kthread is a critical component for legacy consoles.
These changes only affect CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240904120536.115780-16-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
An emergency or panic context can takeover console ownership
while the current owner was printing a printk message. The
atomic printer will re-print the message that the previous
owner was printing. However, this can look confusing to the
user and may even seem as though a message was lost.
[3430014.1
[3430014.181123] usb 1-2: Product: USB Audio
Add a new field @nbcon_prev_seq to struct console to track
the sequence number to print that was assigned to the previous
console owner. If this matches the sequence number to print
that the current owner is assigned, then a takeover must have
occurred. In this case, print an additional message to inform
the user that the previous message is being printed again.
[3430014.1
** replaying previous printk message **
[3430014.181123] usb 1-2: Product: USB Audio
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240904120536.115780-12-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
In order to support prepending different texts to printk
messages, split out the prepending code into a helper
function.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240904120536.115780-11-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Once the kthread is running and available
(i.e. @printk_kthreads_running is set), the kthread becomes
responsible for flushing any pending messages which are added
in NBCON_PRIO_NORMAL context. Namely the legacy
console_flush_all() and device_release() no longer flush the
console. And nbcon_atomic_flush_pending() used by
nbcon_cpu_emergency_exit() no longer flushes messages added
after the emergency messages.
The console context is safe when used by the kthread only when
one of the following conditions are true:
1. Other caller acquires the console context with
NBCON_PRIO_NORMAL with preemption disabled. It will
release the context before rescheduling.
2. Other caller acquires the console context with
NBCON_PRIO_NORMAL under the device_lock.
3. The kthread is the only context which acquires the console
with NBCON_PRIO_NORMAL.
This is satisfied for all atomic printing call sites:
nbcon_legacy_emit_next_record() (#1)
nbcon_atomic_flush_pending_con() (#1)
nbcon_device_release() (#2)
It is even double guaranteed when @printk_kthreads_running
is set because then _only_ the kthread will print for
NBCON_PRIO_NORMAL. (#3)
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240904120536.115780-10-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
When printing via console_lock, the write_atomic() callback is
used for nbcon consoles. However, if it is known that the
current context is a task context, the write_thread() callback
can be used instead.
Using write_thread() instead of write_atomic() helps to reduce
large disabled preemption regions when the device_lock does not
disable preemption.
This is mainly a preparatory change to allow avoiding
write_atomic() completely during normal operation if boot
consoles are registered.
As a side-effect, it also allows consolidating the printing
code for legacy printing and the kthread printer.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240904120536.115780-9-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Move nbcon_atomic_emit_one() so that it can be used by
nbcon_kthread_func() in a follow-up commit.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240904120536.115780-8-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Provide the main implementation for running a printer kthread
per nbcon console that is takeover/handover aware. This
includes:
- new mandatory write_thread() callback
- kthread creation
- kthread main printing loop
- kthread wakeup mechanism
- kthread shutdown
kthread creation is a bit tricky because consoles may register
before kthreads can be created. In such cases, registration
will succeed, even though no kthread exists. Once kthreads can
be created, an early_initcall will set @printk_kthreads_ready.
If there are no registered boot consoles, the early_initcall
creates the kthreads for all registered nbcon consoles. If
kthread creation fails, the related console is unregistered.
If there are registered boot consoles when
@printk_kthreads_ready is set, no kthreads are created until
the final boot console unregisters.
Once kthread creation finally occurs, @printk_kthreads_running
is set so that the system knows kthreads are available for all
registered nbcon consoles.
If @printk_kthreads_running is already set when the console
is registering, the kthread is created during registration. If
kthread creation fails, the registration will fail.
Until @printk_kthreads_running is set, console printing occurs
directly via the console_lock.
kthread shutdown on system shutdown/reboot is necessary to
ensure the printer kthreads finish their printing so that the
system can cleanly transition back to direct printing via the
console_lock in order to reliably push out the final
shutdown/reboot messages. @printk_kthreads_running is cleared
before shutting down the individual kthreads.
The kthread uses a new mandatory write_thread() callback that
is called with both device_lock() and the console context
acquired.
The console ownership handling is necessary for synchronization
against write_atomic() which is synchronized only via the
console context ownership.
The device_lock() serializes acquiring the console context with
NBCON_PRIO_NORMAL. It is needed in case the device_lock() does
not disable preemption. It prevents the following race:
CPU0 CPU1
[ task A ]
nbcon_context_try_acquire()
# success with NORMAL prio
# .unsafe == false; // safe for takeover
[ schedule: task A -> B ]
WARN_ON()
nbcon_atomic_flush_pending()
nbcon_context_try_acquire()
# success with EMERGENCY prio
# flushing
nbcon_context_release()
# HERE: con->nbcon_state is free
# to take by anyone !!!
nbcon_context_try_acquire()
# success with NORMAL prio [ task B ]
[ schedule: task B -> A ]
nbcon_enter_unsafe()
nbcon_context_can_proceed()
BUG: nbcon_context_can_proceed() returns "true" because
the console is owned by a context on CPU0 with
NBCON_PRIO_NORMAL.
But it should return "false". The console is owned
by a context from task B and we do the check
in a context from task A.
Note that with these changes, the printer kthreads do not yet
take over full responsibility for nbcon printing during normal
operation. These changes only focus on the lifecycle of the
kthreads.
Co-developed-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner (Intel) <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240904120536.115780-7-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
When initializing an nbcon console, have nbcon_alloc() set
@nbcon_seq to the highest possible sequence number. For all
practical purposes, this will guarantee that the console
will have nothing to print until later when @nbcon_seq is
set to the proper initial printing value.
This will be particularly important once kthread printing is
introduced because nbcon_alloc() can create/start the kthread
before the desired initial sequence number is known.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240904120536.115780-6-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
The nbcon consoles will have two callbacks to be used for
different contexts. In order to determine if an nbcon console
is usable, console_is_usable() must know if it is a context
that will need to use the optional write_atomic() callback.
Also, nbcon_emit_next_record() must know which callback it
needs to call.
Add an extra parameter @use_atomic to console_is_usable() and
nbcon_emit_next_record() to specify this.
Since so far only the write_atomic() callback exists,
@use_atomic is set to true for all call sites.
For legacy consoles, @use_atomic is not used.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240904120536.115780-5-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Ensure consoles have flushed pending records before
unregistering. The console should print up to at least its
related "console disabled" record.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240904120536.115780-4-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Since ownership can be lost at any time due to handover or
takeover, a printing context _must_ be prepared to back out
immediately and carefully. However, there are scenarios where
the printing context must reacquire ownership in order to
finalize or revert hardware changes.
One such example is when interrupts are disabled during
printing. No other context will automagically re-enable the
interrupts. For this case, the disabling context _must_
reacquire nbcon ownership so that it can re-enable the
interrupts.
Provide nbcon_reacquire_nobuf() for exactly this purpose. It
allows a printing context to reacquire ownership using the same
priority as its previous ownership.
Note that after a successful reacquire the printing context
will have no output buffer because that has been lost. This
function cannot be used to resume printing.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240904120536.115780-2-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
There is no need to open code a non-migration-checking
this_cpu_ptr(). That is exactly what raw_cpu_ptr() is.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87plpum4jw.fsf@jogness.linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
sizeof(unsigned long) * 8 is the number of bits in an unsigned long
variable, replace it with BITS_PER_LONG macro to make it simpler.
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240903035358.308482-1-ruanjinjie@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
In emergency situations (something has gone wrong but the
system continues to operate), usually important information
(such as a backtrace) is generated via printk(). This
information should be pushed out to the consoles ASAP.
Add per-CPU emergency nesting tracking because an emergency
can arise while in an emergency situation.
Add functions to mark the beginning and end of emergency
sections where the urgent messages are generated.
Perform direct console flushing at the emergency priority if
the current CPU is in an emergency state and it is safe to do
so.
Note that the emergency state is not system-wide. While one CPU
is in an emergency state, another CPU may attempt to print
console messages at normal priority.
Also note that printk() already attempts to flush consoles in
the caller context for normal priority. However, follow-up
changes will introduce printing kthreads, in which case the
normal priority printk() calls will offload to the kthreads.
Co-developed-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner (Intel) <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-32-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
There are many call sites where console flushing occur.
Depending on the system state and types of consoles, the flush
methods to use are different. A flush call site generally must
consider:
@have_boot_console
@have_nbcon_console
@have_legacy_console
@legacy_allow_panic_sync
is_printk_preferred()
and take into account the current CPU state:
NBCON_PRIO_NORMAL
NBCON_PRIO_EMERGENCY
NBCON_PRIO_PANIC
in order to decide if it should:
flush nbcon directly via atomic_write() callback
flush legacy directly via console_unlock
flush legacy via offload to irq_work
All of these call sites use their own logic to make this
decision, which is complicated and error prone. Especially
later when two more flush methods will be introduced:
flush nbcon via offload to kthread
flush legacy via offload to kthread
Introduce a new internal struct console_flush_type that specifies
which console flushing methods should be used in the context of
the caller.
Introduce a helper function to fill out console_flush_type to
be used for flushing call sites.
Replace the logic of all flushing call sites to use the new
helper.
This change standardizes behavior, leading to both fixes and
optimizations across various call sites. For instance, in
console_cpu_notify(), the new logic ensures that nbcon consoles
are flushed when they aren’t managed by the legacy loop.
Similarly, in console_flush_on_panic(), the system no longer
needs to flush nbcon consoles if none are present.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-31-john.ogness@linutronix.de
[pmladek@suse.com: Updated the commit message.]
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
If legacy and nbcon consoles are registered and the nbcon
consoles are allowed to flush (i.e. no boot consoles
registered), the legacy consoles will no longer perform
direct printing on the panic CPU until after the backtrace
has been stored. This will give the safe nbcon consoles a
chance to print the panic messages before allowing the
unsafe legacy consoles to print.
If no nbcon consoles are registered or they are not allowed
to flush because boot consoles are registered, there is no
change in behavior (i.e. legacy consoles will always attempt
to print from the printk() caller context).
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-30-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Add a global flag @have_nbcon_console to identify if any nbcon
consoles are registered. This will be used in follow-up commits
to preserve legacy behavior when no nbcon consoles are registered.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-29-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Currently the console lock is used to attempt legacy-type
printing even if there are no legacy or boot consoles registered.
If no such consoles are registered, the console lock does not
need to be taken.
Add tracking of legacy console registration and use it with
boot console tracking to avoid unnecessary code paths, i.e.
do not use the console lock if there are no boot consoles
and no legacy consoles.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-28-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Add nbcon_atomic_flush_unsafe() to flush all nbcon consoles
using the write_atomic() callback and allowing unsafe hostile
takeovers. Call this at the end of panic() as a final attempt
to flush any pending messages.
Note that legacy consoles use unsafe methods for flushing
from the beginning of panic (see bust_spinlocks()). Therefore,
systems using both legacy and nbcon consoles may still fail to
see panic messages due to unsafe legacy console usage.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-27-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
In console_flush_on_panic(), flush the nbcon consoles before
flushing legacy consoles. The legacy write() callbacks are not
fully safe when oops_in_progress is set.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-26-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
There may be new records that were added while a driver was
holding the nbcon context for non-printing purposes. These
new records must be flushed by the nbcon_device_release()
context because no other context will do it.
If boot consoles are registered, the legacy loop is used
(either direct or per irq_work) to handle the flushing.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-25-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
If printk has been explicitly deferred or is called from NMI
context, legacy console printing must be deferred to an irq_work
context. Introduce a helper function is_printk_legacy_deferred()
for a CPU to query if it must defer legacy console printing.
In follow-up commits this helper will be needed at other call
sites as well.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-24-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Allow nbcon consoles to print messages in the legacy printk()
caller context (printing via unlock) by integrating them into
console_flush_all(). The write_atomic() callback is used for
printing.
Provide nbcon_legacy_emit_next_record(), which acts as the
nbcon variant of console_emit_next_record(). Call this variant
within console_flush_all() for nbcon consoles. Since nbcon
consoles use their own @nbcon_seq variable to track the next
record to print, this also must be appropriately handled in
console_flush_all().
Note that the legacy printing logic uses @handover to detect
handovers for printing all consoles. For nbcon consoles,
handovers/takeovers occur on a per-console basis and thus do
not cause the console_flush_all() loop to abort.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-23-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Unfortunately it is not known if a boot console and a regular
(legacy or nbcon) console use the same hardware. For this reason
they must not be allowed to print simultaneously.
For legacy consoles this is not an issue because they are
already synchronized with the boot consoles using the console
lock. However nbcon consoles can be triggered separately.
Add a global flag @have_boot_console to identify if any boot
consoles are registered. This will be used in follow-up commits
to ensure that boot consoles and nbcon consoles cannot print
simultaneously.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-22-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Provide nbcon_atomic_flush_pending() to perform flushing of all
registered nbcon consoles using their write_atomic() callback.
Unlike console_flush_all(), nbcon_atomic_flush_pending() will
only flush up through the newest record at the time of the
call. This prevents a CPU from printing unbounded when other
CPUs are adding records. If new records are added while
flushing, it is expected that the dedicated printer threads
will print those records. If the printer thread is not
available (which is always the case at this point in the
rework), nbcon_atomic_flush_pending() _will_ flush all records
in the ringbuffer.
Unlike console_flush_all(), nbcon_atomic_flush_pending() will
fully flush one console before flushing the next. This helps to
guarantee that a block of pending records (such as a stack
trace in an emergency situation) can be printed atomically at
once before releasing console ownership.
nbcon_atomic_flush_pending() is safe in any context because it
uses write_atomic() and acquires with unsafe_takeover disabled.
Co-developed-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner (Intel) <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-21-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Add a helper function to use the current state of the CPU to
determine which priority to assign to the printing context.
The EMERGENCY priority handling is added in a follow-up commit.
It will use a per-CPU variable.
Note: nbcon_device_try_acquire(), which is used by console
drivers to acquire the nbcon console for non-printing
activities, is hard-coded to always use NORMAL priority.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-20-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
The caller of console_is_usable() usually needs @console->flags
for its own checks. Rather than having console_is_usable() read
its own copy, make the caller pass in the @flags. This also
ensures that the caller saw the same @flags value.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-19-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
The nbcon consoles use a different printing callback. For nbcon
consoles, check for the write_atomic() callback instead of
write().
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-18-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Move console_is_usable() as-is into internal.h so that it can
be used by nbcon printing functions as well.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-17-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
The headers kernel.h, serial_core.h, and console.h allow for the
definitions of many types and functions from other headers.
Rather than relying on these as proxy headers, explicitly
include all headers providing needed definitions. Also sort the
list alphabetically to be able to easily detect duplicates.
Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-16-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Provide functions nbcon_device_try_acquire() and
nbcon_device_release() which will try to acquire the nbcon
console ownership with NBCON_PRIO_NORMAL and mark it unsafe for
handover/takeover.
These functions are to be used together with the device-specific
locking when performing non-printing activities on the console
device. They will allow synchronization against the
atomic_write() callback which will be serialized, for higher
priority contexts, only by acquiring the console context
ownership.
Pitfalls:
The API requires to be called in a context with migration
disabled because it uses per-CPU variables internally.
The context is set unsafe for a takeover all the time. It
guarantees full serialization against any atomic_write() caller
except for the final flush in panic() which might try an unsafe
takeover.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-14-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Console drivers typically have to deal with access to the
hardware via user input/output (such as an interactive login
shell) and output of kernel messages via printk() calls.
They use some classic driver-specific locking mechanism in most
situations. But console->write_atomic() callbacks, used by nbcon
consoles, are synchronized only by acquiring the console
context.
The synchronization via the console context ownership is possible
only when the console driver is registered. It is when a
particular device driver is connected with a particular console
driver.
The two synchronization mechanisms must be synchronized between
each other. It is tricky because the console context ownership
is quite special. It might be taken over by a higher priority
context. Also CPU migration must be disabled. The most tricky
part is to (dis)connect these two mechanisms during the console
(un)registration.
Use the driver-specific locking callbacks: device_lock(),
device_unlock(). They allow taking the device-specific lock
while the device is being (un)registered by the related console
driver.
For example, these callbacks lock/unlock the port lock for
serial port drivers.
Note that the driver-specific locking is only needed during
(un)register if it is an nbcon console with the write_atomic()
callback implemented. If write_atomic() is not implemented, the
driver should never attempt to access the hardware without
first acquiring its driver-specific lock.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-10-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
The return value of write_atomic() does not provide any useful
information. On the contrary, it makes things more complicated
for the caller to appropriately deal with the information.
Change write_atomic() to not have a return value. If the
message did not get printed due to loss of ownership, the
caller will notice this on its own. If ownership was not lost,
it will be assumed that the driver successfully printed the
message and the sequence number for that console will be
incremented.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-7-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
The functions nbcon_owner_matches() and nbcon_waiter_matches()
use a minimal set of data to determine if a context matches.
The existing kerneldoc and comments were not clear enough and
caused the printk folks to re-prove that the functions are
indeed reliable in all cases.
Update and expand the explanations so that it is clear that the
implementations are sufficient for all cases.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-6-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Add validation that printk_deferred_enter()/_exit() are called in
non-migration contexts.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-5-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
If a non-boot console is registering and boot consoles exist,
the consoles are flushed before being unregistered. This allows
the non-boot console to continue where the boot console left
off.
If for whatever reason flushing fails, the lowest seq found from
any of the enabled boot consoles is used. Until now con->seq was
checked. However, if it is an nbcon boot console, the function
nbcon_seq_read() must be used to read seq because con->seq is
not updated for nbcon consoles.
Check if it is an nbcon boot console and if so call
nbcon_seq_read() to read seq.
Also, avoid usage of con->seq as temporary storage of the
starting record. Instead, rename console_init_seq() to
get_init_console_seq() and just return the value. For nbcon
consoles set the sequence via nbcon_seq_force(), for legacy
consoles set con->seq.
The cleaned design should make sure that the value stays and is
set before the console is added to the console list. It also
unifies the sequence number initialization for legacy and nbcon
consoles.
Reviewed-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-4-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Rather than splitting the nbcon allocation and initialization into
two pieces, perform all initialization in nbcon_alloc(). Later,
the initial sequence is calculated and can be explicitly set using
nbcon_seq_force(). This removes the need for the strong rules of
nbcon_init() that even included a BUG_ON().
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-3-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
kernel/printk/printk.c:284:5: sparse: sparse: context imbalance in
'console_srcu_read_lock' - wrong count at exit
include/linux/srcu.h:301:9: sparse: sparse: context imbalance in
'console_srcu_read_unlock' - unexpected unlock
Fixes: 6c4afa7914 ("printk: Prepare for SRCU console list protection")
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-2-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
commit 779dbc2e78 ("printk: Avoid non-panic CPUs writing
to ringbuffer") disabled non-panic CPUs to further write messages to
ringbuffer after panicked.
Since the commit, non-panicked CPU's are not allowed to write to
ring buffer after panicked and CPU backtrace which is triggered
after panicked to sample non-panicked CPUs' backtrace no longer
serves its function as it has nothing to print.
Fix the issue by allowing non-panicked CPUs to write into ringbuffer
while CPU backtrace is in flight.
Fixes: 779dbc2e78 ("printk: Avoid non-panic CPUs writing to ringbuffer")
Signed-off-by: Ryo Takakura <takakura@valinux.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240812072703.339690-1-takakura@valinux.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
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Merge tag 'printk-for-6.11-trivial' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux
Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:
- trivial printk changes
The bigger "real" printk work is still being discussed.
* tag 'printk-for-6.11-trivial' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux:
vsprintf: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro
printk: Rename console_replay_all() and update context
const qualify the struct ctl_table argument in the proc_handler function
signatures. This is a prerequisite to moving the static ctl_table
structs into .rodata data which will ensure that proc_handler function
pointers cannot be modified.
This patch has been generated by the following coccinelle script:
```
virtual patch
@r1@
identifier ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
identifier func !~ "appldata_(timer|interval)_handler|sched_(rt|rr)_handler|rds_tcp_skbuf_handler|proc_sctp_do_(hmac_alg|rto_min|rto_max|udp_port|alpha_beta|auth|probe_interval)";
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *ctl
+ const struct ctl_table *ctl
,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
@r2@
identifier func, ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *ctl
+ const struct ctl_table *ctl
,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
{ ... }
@r3@
identifier func;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *
+ const struct ctl_table *
,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);
@r4@
identifier func, ctl;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *ctl
+ const struct ctl_table *ctl
,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);
@r5@
identifier func, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *
+ const struct ctl_table *
,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
```
* Code formatting was adjusted in xfs_sysctl.c to comply with code
conventions. The xfs_stats_clear_proc_handler,
xfs_panic_mask_proc_handler and xfs_deprecated_dointvec_minmax where
adjusted.
* The ctl_table argument in proc_watchdog_common was const qualified.
This is called from a proc_handler itself and is calling back into
another proc_handler, making it necessary to change it as part of the
proc_handler migration.
Co-developed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Co-developed-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Let's add match_devname_and_update_preferred_console() for driver
subsystems to call during init when the console is ready, and it's
character device name is known. For now, we use it only for the serial
layer to allow console=DEVNAME:0.0 style hardware based addressing for
consoles.
The earlier attempt on doing this caused a regression with the kernel
command line console order as it added calling __add_preferred_console()
again later on during init. A better approach was suggested by Petr where
we add the deferred console to the console_cmdline[] and update it later
on when the console is ready.
Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Co-developed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony.lindgren@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240703100615.118762-2-tony.lindgren@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This reverts commit f03e8c1060.
Let's roll back all of the serial core and printk console changes that
went into 6.10-rc1 as there still are problems with them that need to be
sorted out.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZnpRozsdw6zbjqze@tlindgre-MOBL1
Reported-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reported-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This reverts commit 8a831c584e.
Let's roll back all of the serial core and printk console changes that
went into 6.10-rc1 as there still are problems with them that need to be
sorted out.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZnpRozsdw6zbjqze@tlindgre-MOBL1
Reported-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reported-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This reverts commit b73c9cbe4f.
Let's roll back all of the serial core and printk console changes that
went into 6.10-rc1 as there still are problems with them that need to be
sorted out.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZnpRozsdw6zbjqze@tlindgre-MOBL1
Reported-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reported-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
