linux/kernel/rcu
John Ogness 2bb2b7b57f printk: add functions to prefer direct printing
Once kthread printing is available, console printing will no longer
occur in the context of the printk caller. However, there are some
special contexts where it is desirable for the printk caller to
directly print out kernel messages. Using pr_flush() to wait for
threaded printers is only possible if the caller is in a sleepable
context and the kthreads are active. That is not always the case.

Introduce printk_prefer_direct_enter() and printk_prefer_direct_exit()
functions to explicitly (and globally) activate/deactivate preferred
direct console printing. The term "direct console printing" refers to
printing to all enabled consoles from the context of the printk
caller. The term "prefer" is used because this type of printing is
only best effort. If the console is currently locked or other
printers are already actively printing, the printk caller will need
to rely on the other contexts to handle the printing.

This preferred direct printing is how all printing has been handled
until now (unless it was explicitly deferred).

When kthread printing is introduced, there may be some unanticipated
problems due to kthreads being unable to flush important messages.
In order to minimize such risks, preferred direct printing is
activated for the primary important messages when the system
experiences general types of major errors. These are:

 - emergency reboot/shutdown
 - cpu and rcu stalls
 - hard and soft lockups
 - hung tasks
 - warn
 - sysrq

Note that since kthread printing does not yet exist, no behavior
changes result from this commit. This is only implementing the
counter and marking the various places where preferred direct
printing is active.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> # for RCU
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220421212250.565456-13-john.ogness@linutronix.de
2022-04-22 21:30:58 +02:00
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Kconfig Merge branches 'doc.2021.11.30c', 'exp.2021.12.07a', 'fastnohz.2021.11.30c', 'fixes.2021.11.30c', 'nocb.2021.12.09a', 'nolibc.2021.11.30c', 'tasks.2021.12.09a', 'torture.2021.12.07a' and 'torturescript.2021.11.30c' into HEAD 2021-12-09 11:38:09 -08:00
Kconfig.debug rcu: Restrict RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD to at most four CPUs 2021-05-10 16:22:54 -07:00
Makefile rcuperf: Change rcuperf to rcuscale 2020-08-24 18:39:24 -07:00
rcu_segcblist.c rcu/nocb: Invoke rcu_core() at the start of deoffloading 2021-12-07 16:24:44 -08:00
rcu_segcblist.h rcu: Mark writes to the rcu_segcblist structure's ->flags field 2022-02-14 10:36:58 -08:00
rcu.h Merge branches 'bitmaprange.2021.05.10c', 'doc.2021.05.10c', 'fixes.2021.05.13a', 'kvfree_rcu.2021.05.10c', 'mmdumpobj.2021.05.10c', 'nocb.2021.05.12a', 'srcu.2021.05.12a', 'tasks.2021.05.18a' and 'torture.2021.05.10c' into HEAD 2021-05-18 10:56:19 -07:00
rcuscale.c rcuscale: Always log error message 2021-12-07 16:36:17 -08:00
rcutorture.c Merge branches 'exp.2022.02.24a', 'fixes.2022.02.14a', 'rcu_barrier.2022.02.08a', 'rcu-tasks.2022.02.08a', 'rt.2022.02.01b', 'torture.2022.02.01b' and 'torturescript.2022.02.08a' into HEAD 2022-02-24 09:38:46 -08:00
refscale.c refscale: Add missing '\n' to flush message 2021-12-07 16:36:12 -08:00
srcutiny.c srcu: Prevent redundant __srcu_read_unlock() wakeup 2021-11-30 17:28:16 -08:00
srcutree.c Merge branches 'bitmaprange.2021.05.10c', 'doc.2021.05.10c', 'fixes.2021.05.13a', 'kvfree_rcu.2021.05.10c', 'mmdumpobj.2021.05.10c', 'nocb.2021.05.12a', 'srcu.2021.05.12a', 'tasks.2021.05.18a' and 'torture.2021.05.10c' into HEAD 2021-05-18 10:56:19 -07:00
sync.c rcu: Fix various typos in comments 2021-05-12 12:11:05 -07:00
tasks.h Changes in this cycle were: 2022-03-22 14:39:12 -07:00
tiny.c srcu: Initialize SRCU after timers 2021-05-10 16:03:35 -07:00
tree_exp.h rcu: Mark ->expmask access in synchronize_rcu_expedited_wait() 2022-02-01 17:05:10 -08:00
tree_nocb.h Merge branches 'exp.2022.02.24a', 'fixes.2022.02.14a', 'rcu_barrier.2022.02.08a', 'rcu-tasks.2022.02.08a', 'rt.2022.02.01b', 'torture.2022.02.01b' and 'torturescript.2022.02.08a' into HEAD 2022-02-24 09:38:46 -08:00
tree_plugin.h Changes in this cycle were: 2022-03-22 14:39:12 -07:00
tree_stall.h printk: add functions to prefer direct printing 2022-04-22 21:30:58 +02:00
tree.c RCU pull request for v5.18 2022-03-21 14:00:56 -07:00
tree.h Merge branches 'exp.2022.02.24a', 'fixes.2022.02.14a', 'rcu_barrier.2022.02.08a', 'rcu-tasks.2022.02.08a', 'rt.2022.02.01b', 'torture.2022.02.01b' and 'torturescript.2022.02.08a' into HEAD 2022-02-24 09:38:46 -08:00
update.c rcu: Uninline multi-use function: finish_rcuwait() 2022-02-14 10:36:58 -08:00