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<updated>2020-09-22T09:27:48Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>printk: move dictionary keys to dev_printk_info</title>
<updated>2020-09-22T09:27:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Ogness</name>
<email>john.ogness@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-21T11:18:45Z</published>
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Dictionaries are only used for SUBSYSTEM and DEVICE properties. The
current implementation stores the property names each time they are
used. This requires more space than otherwise necessary. Also,
because the dictionary entries are currently considered optional,
it cannot be relied upon that they are always available, even if the
writer wanted to store them. These issues will increase should new
dictionary properties be introduced.

Rather than storing the subsystem and device properties in the
dict ring, introduce a struct dev_printk_info with separate fields
to store only the property values. Embed this struct within the
struct printk_info to provide guaranteed availability.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87mu1jl6ne.fsf@jogness.linutronix.de
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<entry>
<title>printk: Prepare for nested printk_nmi_enter()</title>
<updated>2020-05-19T13:51:16Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Mladek</name>
<email>pmladek@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-24T12:13:31Z</published>
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There is plenty of space in the printk_context variable. Reserve one byte
there for the NMI context to be on the safe side.

It should never overflow. The BUG_ON(in_nmi() == NMI_MASK) in nmi_enter()
will trigger much earlier.

Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre &lt;alexandre.chartre@oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200505134100.681374113@linutronix.de



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</entry>
<entry>
<title>printk: queue wake_up_klogd irq_work only if per-CPU areas are ready</title>
<updated>2020-04-10T20:18:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-03T11:30:02Z</published>
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printk_deferred(), similarly to printk_safe/printk_nmi, does not
immediately attempt to print a new message on the consoles, avoiding
calls into non-reentrant kernel paths, e.g. scheduler or timekeeping,
which potentially can deadlock the system.

Those printk() flavors, instead, rely on per-CPU flush irq_work to print
messages from safer contexts.  For same reasons (recursive scheduler or
timekeeping calls) printk() uses per-CPU irq_work in order to wake up
user space syslog/kmsg readers.

However, only printk_safe/printk_nmi do make sure that per-CPU areas
have been initialised and that it's safe to modify per-CPU irq_work.
This means that, for instance, should printk_deferred() be invoked "too
early", that is before per-CPU areas are initialised, printk_deferred()
will perform illegal per-CPU access.

Lech Perczak [0] reports that after commit 1b710b1b10ef ("char/random:
silence a lockdep splat with printk()") user-space syslog/kmsg readers
are not able to read new kernel messages.

The reason is printk_deferred() being called too early (as was pointed
out by Petr and John).

Fix printk_deferred() and do not queue per-CPU irq_work before per-CPU
areas are initialized.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/aa0732c6-5c4e-8a8b-a1c1-75ebe3dca05b@camlintechnologies.com/
Reported-by: Lech Perczak &lt;l.perczak@camlintechnologies.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 13</title>
<updated>2019-05-21T09:28:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-19T13:51:43Z</published>
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Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version this program is distributed in the
  hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
  the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
  purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you
  should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along
  with this program if not see http www gnu org licenses

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version this program is distributed in the
  hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
  the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
  purpose see the gnu general public license for more details [based]
  [from] [clk] [highbank] [c] you should have received a copy of the
  gnu general public license along with this program if not see http
  www gnu org licenses

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 355 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jilayne Lovejoy &lt;opensource@jilayne.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steve Winslow &lt;swinslow@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190519154041.837383322@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>printk/nmi: Prevent deadlock when accessing the main log buffer in NMI</title>
<updated>2018-07-09T12:10:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Mladek</name>
<email>pmladek@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-27T14:20:28Z</published>
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The commit 719f6a7040f1bdaf96 ("printk: Use the main logbuf in NMI
when logbuf_lock is available") brought back the possible deadlocks
in printk() and NMI.

The check of logbuf_lock is done only in printk_nmi_enter() to prevent
mixed output. But another CPU might take the lock later, enter NMI, and:

      + Both NMIs might be serialized by yet another lock, for example,
	the one in nmi_cpu_backtrace().

      + The other CPU might get stopped in NMI, see smp_send_stop()
	in panic().

The only safe solution is to use trylock when storing the message
into the main log-buffer. It might cause reordering when some lines
go to the main lock buffer directly and others are delayed via
the per-CPU buffer. It means that it is not useful in general.

This patch replaces the problematic NMI deferred context with NMI
direct context. It can be used to mark a code that might produce
many messages in NMI and the risk of losing them is more critical
than problems with eventual reordering.

The context is then used when dumping trace buffers on oops. It was
the primary motivation for the original fix. Also the reordering is
even smaller issue there because some traces have their own time stamps.

Finally, nmi_cpu_backtrace() need not longer be serialized because
it will always us the per-CPU buffers again.

Fixes: 719f6a7040f1bdaf96 ("printk: Use the main logbuf in NMI when logbuf_lock is available")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180627142028.11259-1-pmladek@suse.com
To: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>printk: Use the main logbuf in NMI when logbuf_lock is available</title>
<updated>2017-05-19T12:42:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Mladek</name>
<email>pmladek@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-20T08:52:31Z</published>
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The commit 42a0bb3f71383b457a7d ("printk/nmi: generic solution for safe
printk in NMI") caused that printk stores messages into a temporary
buffer in NMI context.

The buffer is per-CPU and therefore the size is rather limited.
It works quite well for NMI backtraces. But there are longer logs
that might get printed in NMI context, for example, lockdep
warnings, ftrace_dump_on_oops.

The temporary buffer is used to avoid deadlocks caused by
logbuf_lock. Also it is needed to avoid races with the other
temporary buffer that is used when PRINTK_SAFE_CONTEXT is entered.
But the main buffer can be used in NMI if the lock is available
and we did not interrupt PRINTK_SAFE_CONTEXT.

The lock is checked using raw_spin_is_locked(). It might cause
false negatives when the lock is taken on another CPU and
this CPU is in the safe context from other reasons. Note that
the safe context is used also to get console semaphore or when
calling console drivers. For this reason, we do the check in
printk_nmi_enter(). It makes the handling consistent for
the entire NMI handler and avoids reshuffling of the messages.

The patch also defines special printk context that allows
to use printk_deferred() in NMI. Note that we could not flush
the messages to the consoles because console drivers might use
many other internal locks.

The newly created vprintk_deferred() disables the preemption
only around the irq work handling. It is needed there to keep
the consistency between the two per-CPU variables. But there
is no reason to disable preemption around vprintk_emit().

Finally, the patch puts back explicit serialization of the NMI
backtraces from different CPUs. It was removed by the
commit a9edc88093287183ac934b ("x86/nmi: Perform a safe
NMI stack trace on all CPUs"). It was not needed because
the flushing of the temporary per-CPU buffers was serialized.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1493912763-24873-1-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rack+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>printk: report lost messages in printk safe/nmi contexts</title>
<updated>2017-02-08T12:50:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-27T14:16:08Z</published>
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Account lost messages in pritk-safe and printk-safe-nmi
contexts and report those numbers during printk_safe_flush().

The patch also moves lost message counter to struct
`printk_safe_seq_buf' instead of having dedicated static
counters - this simplifies the code.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161227141611.940-6-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Calvin Owens &lt;calvinowens@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>printk: introduce per-cpu safe_print seq buffer</title>
<updated>2017-02-08T10:07:11Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-27T14:16:06Z</published>
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This patch extends the idea of NMI per-cpu buffers to regions
that may cause recursive printk() calls and possible deadlocks.
Namely, printk() can't handle printk calls from schedule code
or printk() calls from lock debugging code (spin_dump() for instance);
because those may be called with `sem-&gt;lock' already taken or any
other `critical' locks (p-&gt;pi_lock, etc.). An example of deadlock
can be

 vprintk_emit()
  console_unlock()
   up()                        &lt;&lt; raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&amp;sem-&gt;lock, flags);
    wake_up_process()
     try_to_wake_up()
      ttwu_queue()
       ttwu_activate()
        activate_task()
         enqueue_task()
          enqueue_task_fair()
           cfs_rq_of()
            task_of()
             WARN_ON_ONCE(!entity_is_task(se))
              vprintk_emit()
               console_trylock()
                down_trylock()
                 raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&amp;sem-&gt;lock, flags)
                 ^^^^ deadlock

and some other cases.

Just like in NMI implementation, the solution uses a per-cpu
`printk_func' pointer to 'redirect' printk() calls to a 'safe'
callback, that store messages in a per-cpu buffer and flushes
them back to logbuf buffer later.

Usage example:

 printk()
  printk_safe_enter_irqsave(flags)
  //
  //  any printk() call from here will endup in vprintk_safe(),
  //  that stores messages in a special per-CPU buffer.
  //
  printk_safe_exit_irqrestore(flags)

The 'redirection' mechanism, though, has been reworked, as suggested
by Petr Mladek. Instead of using a per-cpu @print_func callback we now
keep a per-cpu printk-context variable and call either default or nmi
vprintk function depending on its value. printk_nmi_entrer/exit and
printk_safe_enter/exit, thus, just set/celar corresponding bits in
printk-context functions.

The patch only adds printk_safe support, we don't use it yet.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161227141611.940-4-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Calvin Owens &lt;calvinowens@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "printk: create pr_&lt;level&gt; functions"</title>
<updated>2016-08-09T17:48:18Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-09T17:48:18Z</published>
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This reverts commit 874f9c7da9a4acbc1b9e12ca722579fb50e4d142.

Geert Uytterhoeven reports:
 "This change seems to have an (unintendent?) side-effect.

  Before, pr_*() calls without a trailing newline characters would be
  printed with a newline character appended, both on the console and in
  the output of the dmesg command.

  After this commit, no new line character is appended, and the output
  of the next pr_*() call of the same type may be appended, like in:

    - Truncating RAM at 0x0000000040000000-0x00000000c0000000 to -0x0000000070000000
    - Ignoring RAM at 0x0000000200000000-0x0000000240000000 (!CONFIG_HIGHMEM)
    + Truncating RAM at 0x0000000040000000-0x00000000c0000000 to -0x0000000070000000Ignoring RAM at 0x0000000200000000-0x0000000240000000 (!CONFIG_HIGHMEM)"

Joe Perches says:
 "No, that is not intentional.

  The newline handling code inside vprintk_emit is a bit involved and
  for now I suggest a revert until this has all the same behavior as
  earlier"

Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Requested-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>printk: create pr_&lt;level&gt; functions</title>
<updated>2016-08-02T23:35:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-02T21:03:53Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
Using functions instead of macros can reduce overall code size by
eliminating unnecessary "KERN_SOH&lt;digit&gt;" prefixes from format strings.

  defconfig x86-64:

  $ size vmlinux*
     text    data     bss      dec     hex  filename
  10193570 4331464 1105920 15630954  ee826a vmlinux.new
  10192623 4335560 1105920 15634103  ee8eb7 vmlinux.old

As the return value are unimportant and unused in the kernel tree, these
new functions return void.

Miscellanea:

 - change pr_&lt;level&gt; macros to call new __pr_&lt;level&gt; functions
 - change vprintk_nmi and vprintk_default to add LOGLEVEL_&lt;level&gt; argument

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix LOGLEVEL_INFO, per Joe]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e16cc34479dfefcae37c98b481e6646f0f69efc3.1466718827.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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