user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/printk.h, branch v4.7

printk/nmi: flush NMI messages on the system panic

2016-05-21T00:58:30Z

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

printk/nmi: generic solution for safe printk in NMI

2016-05-21T00:58:30Z

printk() takes some locks and could not be used a safe way in NMI context. The chance of a deadlock is real especially when printing stacks from all CPUs. This particular problem has been addressed on x86 by the commit a9edc8809328 ("x86/nmi: Perform a safe NMI stack trace on all CPUs"). The patchset brings two big advantages. First, it makes the NMI backtraces safe on all architectures for free. Second, it makes all NMI messages almost safe on all architectures (the temporary buffer is limited. We still should keep the number of messages in NMI context at minimum). Note that there already are several messages printed in NMI context: WARN_ON(in_nmi()), BUG_ON(in_nmi()), anything being printed out from MCE handlers. These are not easy to avoid. This patch reuses most of the code and makes it generic. It is useful for all messages and architectures that support NMI. The alternative printk_func is set when entering and is reseted when leaving NMI context. It queues IRQ work to copy the messages into the main ring buffer in a safe context. __printk_nmi_flush() copies all available messages and reset the buffer. Then we could use a simple cmpxchg operations to get synchronized with writers. There is also used a spinlock to get synchronized with other flushers. We do not longer use seq_buf because it depends on external lock. It would be hard to make all supported operations safe for a lockless use. It would be confusing and error prone to make only some operations safe. The code is put into separate printk/nmi.c as suggested by Steven Rostedt. It needs a per-CPU buffer and is compiled only on architectures that call nmi_enter(). This is achieved by the new HAVE_NMI Kconfig flag. The are MN10300 and Xtensa architectures. We need to clean up NMI handling there first. Let's do it separately. The patch is heavily based on the draft from Peter Zijlstra, see https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/10/327 [arnd@arndb.de: printk-nmi: use %zu format string for size_t] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: min_t->min - all types are size_t here] Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt Cc: Jan Kara Acked-by: Russell King [arm part] Cc: Daniel Thompson Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: David Miller Cc: Daniel Thompson Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

printk: help pr_debug and pr_devel to optimize out arguments

2016-01-16T19:17:29Z

Currently, pr_debug and pr_devel will not elide function call arguments appearing in calls to the no_printk for these macros. This is because all side effects must be honored before proceeding to the 0-value assignment in no_printk. The behavior is contrary to documentation found in the CodingStyle and the header file where these functions are declared. This patch corrects that behavior by shunting out the call to no_printk completely. The format string is still checked by gcc for correctness, but no code seems to be emitted in common cases. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove braces, per Joe] Fixes: 5264f2f75d86 ("include/linux/printk.h: use and neaten no_printk") Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Jason Baron Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

hexdump: do not print debug dumps for !CONFIG_DEBUG

2015-09-10T20:29:01Z

print_hex_dump_debug() is likely supposed to be analogous to pr_debug() or dev_dbg() & friends. Currently it will adhere to dynamic debug, but will not stub out prints if CONFIG_DEBUG is not set. Let's make it do the right thing, because I am tired of having my dmesg buffer full of hex dumps on production systems. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

include/linux/printk.h: include pr_fmt in pr_debug_ratelimited

2015-09-10T20:29:01Z

The other two implementations of pr_debug_ratelimited include pr_fmt, along with every other pr_* function. But pr_debug_ratelimited forgot to add it with the CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG implementation. This patch unifies the behavior. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld Cc: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

include, lib: add __printf attributes to several function prototypes

2015-07-17T23:39:53Z

Using __printf attributes helps to detect several format string issues at compile time (even though -Wformat-security is currently disabled in Makefile). For example it can detect when formatting a pointer as a number, like the issue fixed in commit a3fa71c40f18 ("wl18xx: show rx_frames_per_rates as an array as it really is"), or when the arguments do not match the format string, c.f. for example commit 5ce1aca81435 ("reiserfs: fix __RASSERT format string"). To prevent similar bugs in the future, add a __printf attribute to every function prototype which needs one in include/linux/ and lib/. These functions were mostly found by using gcc's -Wsuggest-attribute=format flag. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Felipe Balbi Cc: Joel Becker Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

printk: guard the amount written per line by devkmsg_read()

2015-06-26T00:00:38Z

This patchset updates netconsole so that it can emit messages with the same header as used in /dev/kmsg which gives neconsole receiver full log information which enables things like structured logging and detection of lost messages. This patch (of 7): devkmsg_read() uses 8k buffer and assumes that the formatted output message won't overrun which seems safe given LOG_LINE_MAX, the current use of dict and the escaping method being used; however, we're planning to use devkmsg formatting wider and accounting for the buffer size properly isn't that complicated. This patch defines CONSOLE_EXT_LOG_MAX as 8192 and updates devkmsg_read() so that it limits output accordingly. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: David Miller Cc: Kay Sievers Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Cc: Tetsuo Handa Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

printk: comment pr_cont() stating it is only to continue a line

2015-04-15T23:35:23Z

KERN_CONT is nicely commented in kern_levels.h, but pr_cont() is now used more often, and it lacks the comment stating what it is used for. It can be confused as continuing the log level, but that is not its purpose. Its purpose is to continue a line that had no newline enclosed. This should be documented by pr_cont() as well. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Acked-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

hexdump: make it return number of bytes placed in buffer

2015-02-13T02:54:15Z

This patch makes hexdump return the number of bytes placed in the buffer excluding trailing NUL. In the case of overflow it returns the desired amount of bytes to produce the entire dump. Thus, it mimics snprintf(). This will be useful for users that would like to repeat with a bigger buffer. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk warning] Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

printk: add dummy routine for when CONFIG_PRINTK=n

2015-01-26T21:37:18Z

There are missing dummy routines for log_buf_addr_get() and log_buf_len_get() for when CONFIG_PRINTK is not set causing build failures. This patch adds these dummy routines at the appropriate location. Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar Cc: Michael Ellerman Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Acked-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds