Re: [PATCH] kernel/printk: prevent deadlock at calling kmsg_dump from NMI context

2019-07-15 Thread Konstantin Khlebnikov
On 15.07.2019 10:54, Petr Mladek wrote: On Mon 2019-07-15 11:33:38, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: On (07/13/19 17:03), Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: We call kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_PANIC) after smp_send_stop() Indeed, panic is especially handled and looks fine. Just to get a picture. What other situ

Re: [PATCH] kernel/printk: prevent deadlock at calling kmsg_dump from NMI context

2019-07-15 Thread Petr Mladek
On Mon 2019-07-15 11:33:38, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > On (07/13/19 17:03), Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: > > > We call kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_PANIC) after smp_send_stop() > > > > Indeed, panic is especially handled and looks fine. Just to get a picture. What other situations are we talking about, p

Re: [PATCH] kernel/printk: prevent deadlock at calling kmsg_dump from NMI context

2019-07-15 Thread Sergey Senozhatsky
On (07/15/19 10:38), Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: > > > Indeed, panic is especially handled and looks fine. > > > > > > Sanity check in my patch could be relaxed: > > > > > > if (WARN_ON_ONCE(reason != KMSG_DUMP_PANIC && in_nmi())) > > > return; > > > > How critical kmsg_

Re: [PATCH] kernel/printk: prevent deadlock at calling kmsg_dump from NMI context

2019-07-15 Thread Konstantin Khlebnikov
On 15.07.2019 5:33, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: On (07/13/19 17:03), Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: We call kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_PANIC) after smp_send_stop() and after printk_safe_flush_on_panic(). printk_safe_flush_on_panic() resets the state of logbuf_lock, so logbuf_lock, in general case, should b

Re: [PATCH] kernel/printk: prevent deadlock at calling kmsg_dump from NMI context

2019-07-14 Thread Sergey Senozhatsky
On (07/13/19 17:03), Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: > > We call kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_PANIC) after smp_send_stop() and after > > printk_safe_flush_on_panic(). printk_safe_flush_on_panic() resets > > the state of logbuf_lock, so logbuf_lock, in general case, should > > be unlocked by the time we call km

Re: [PATCH] kernel/printk: prevent deadlock at calling kmsg_dump from NMI context

2019-07-13 Thread Konstantin Khlebnikov
On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 4:20 PM Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > > On (07/13/19 09:46), Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: > > > On (07/12/19 17:54), Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: > > > > Yep printk() can deal with NMI, but kmsg_dump() is a different beast. > > It reads printk buffer and saves content into pe

Re: [PATCH] kernel/printk: prevent deadlock at calling kmsg_dump from NMI context

2019-07-13 Thread Sergey Senozhatsky
On (07/13/19 09:46), Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: > > On (07/12/19 17:54), Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: > > Yep printk() can deal with NMI, but kmsg_dump() is a different beast. > It reads printk buffer and saves content into persistent storage like ACPI > ERST. Ah, sorry! I misread your patch.

Re: [PATCH] kernel/printk: prevent deadlock at calling kmsg_dump from NMI context

2019-07-12 Thread Konstantin Khlebnikov
On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 9:10 AM Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > > On (07/12/19 17:54), Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: > > Function kmsg_dump could be invoked from NMI context intentionally or > > accidentally because it is called at various oops/panic paths. > > Kernel message dumpers are not ready to w

Re: [PATCH] kernel/printk: prevent deadlock at calling kmsg_dump from NMI context

2019-07-12 Thread Sergey Senozhatsky
On (07/12/19 17:54), Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: > Function kmsg_dump could be invoked from NMI context intentionally or > accidentally because it is called at various oops/panic paths. > Kernel message dumpers are not ready to work in NMI context right now. > They could deadlock on lockbuf_lock o

[PATCH] kernel/printk: prevent deadlock at calling kmsg_dump from NMI context

2019-07-12 Thread Konstantin Khlebnikov
Function kmsg_dump could be invoked from NMI context intentionally or accidentally because it is called at various oops/panic paths. Kernel message dumpers are not ready to work in NMI context right now. They could deadlock on lockbuf_lock or break internal structures. Theoretically some dumpers c