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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 /include/linux/printk.h
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 'include/linux/printk.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/printk.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/printk.h b/include/linux/printk.h
index 51dd6b824fe2..f4da695fd615 100644
--- a/include/linux/printk.h
+++ b/include/linux/printk.h
@@ -127,11 +127,13 @@ extern void printk_nmi_init(void);
extern void printk_nmi_enter(void);
extern void printk_nmi_exit(void);
extern void printk_nmi_flush(void);
+extern void printk_nmi_flush_on_panic(void);
#else
static inline void printk_nmi_init(void) { }
static inline void printk_nmi_enter(void) { }
static inline void printk_nmi_exit(void) { }
static inline void printk_nmi_flush(void) { }
+static inline void printk_nmi_flush_on_panic(void) { }
#endif /* PRINTK_NMI */
#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK