We currently have a global error message buffer in cmn_err that is
protected by a spin lock that disables interrupts. Recently there
have been reports of NMI timeouts occurring when the console is
being flooded by SCSI error reports due to cmn_err() getting stuck
trying to print to the console while holding this lock (i.e. with
interrupts disabled). The NMI watchdog is seeing this CPU as
non-responding and so is triggering a panic. While the trigger for
the reported case is SCSI errors, pretty much anything that spams
the kernel log could cause this to occur.
Realistically the only reason that we have the intemediate message
buffer is to prepend the correct kernel log level prefix to the log
message. The only reason we have the lock is to protect the global
message buffer and the only reason the message buffer is global is
to keep it off the stack. Hence if we can avoid needing a global
message buffer we avoid needing the lock, and we can do this with a
small amount of cleanup and some preprocessor tricks:
1. clean up xfs_cmn_err() panic mask functionality to avoid
needing debug code in xfs_cmn_err()
2. remove the couple of "!" message prefixes that still exist that
the existing cmn_err() code steps over.
3. redefine CE_* levels directly to KERN_*
4. redefine cmn_err() and friends to use printk() directly
via variable argument length macros.
By doing this, we can completely remove the cmn_err() code and the
lock that is causing the problems, and rely solely on printk()
serialisation to ensure that we don't get garbled messages.
A series of followup patches is really needed to clean up all the
cmn_err() calls and related messages properly, but that results in a
series that is not easily back portable to enterprise kernels. Hence
this initial fix is only to address the direct problem in the lowest
impact way possible.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Remove our own STATIC_INLINE macro. For small function inside
implementation files just use STATIC and let gcc inline it, and for
those in headers do the normal static inline - they are all small
enough to be inlined for debug builds, too.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
xfs_fs_vcmn_err can be called under a spinlock, but does a sleeping memory
allocation to create buffer for it's internal sprintf. Fortunately it's
the only caller of icmn_err, so we can merge the two and have one single
static buffer and spinlock protecting it. While we're at it make sure
we proper __attribute__ format annotations so that the compiler can detect
mismatched format strings.
Reported-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
- remove the != 0 inside the unlikely in ASSERT_ALWAYS because sparse now
complains about comparisons between pointers and 0
- add a standalone ASSERT implementation because defining it to
ASSERT_ALWAYS means the string is expanded before the token passing
stringification. This way we get the actual content of the
assertion in the assfail message and don't overflow sparse's
stringification buffer leading to sparse error messages.
SGI-PV: 968555
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29310a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
gcc-4.1 and more recent aggressively inline static functions which
increases XFS stack usage by ~15% in critical paths. Prevent this from
occurring by adding noinline to the STATIC definition.
Also uninline some functions that are too large to be inlined and were
causing problems with CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING=y.
Finally, clean up all the different users of inline, __inline and
__inline__ and put them under one STATIC_INLINE macro. For debug kernels
the STATIC_INLINE macro uninlines those functions.
SGI-PV: 957159
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:27585a
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Chatterton <chatz@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
