From cf9b1106c81c45cde02208fca49d3f3e4ab6ee74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Petr Mladek Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 17:00:42 -0700 Subject: 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 Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Daniel Thompson Cc: David Miller Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Russell King Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/kexec_core.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'kernel/kexec_core.c') diff --git a/kernel/kexec_core.c b/kernel/kexec_core.c index 1c03dfb4abfd..d5d408252992 100644 --- a/kernel/kexec_core.c +++ b/kernel/kexec_core.c @@ -893,6 +893,7 @@ void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs) old_cpu = atomic_cmpxchg(&panic_cpu, PANIC_CPU_INVALID, this_cpu); if (old_cpu == PANIC_CPU_INVALID) { /* This is the 1st CPU which comes here, so go ahead. */ + printk_nmi_flush_on_panic(); __crash_kexec(regs); /* -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b