user/sven/linux.git/kernel/printk, branch v4.9.104

printk: Correctly handle preemption in console_unlock()

2018-03-22T08:17:47Z

[ Upstream commit 257ab443118bffc7fdcef38f49cf59be68a3e362 ] Some console drivers code calls console_conditional_schedule() that looks at @console_may_schedule. The value must be cleared when the drivers are called from console_unlock() with interrupts disabled. But rescheduling is fine when the same code is called, for example, from tty operations where the console semaphore is taken via console_lock(). This is why @console_may_schedule is cleared before calling console drivers. The original value is stored to decide if we could sleep between lines. Now, @console_may_schedule is not cleared when we call console_trylock() and jump back to the "again" goto label. This has become a problem, since the commit 6b97a20d3a7909daa066 ("printk: set may_schedule for some of console_trylock() callers"). @console_may_schedule might get enabled now. There is also the opposite problem. console_lock() can be called only from preemptive context. It can always enable scheduling in the console code. But console_trylock() is not able to detect it when CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT is disabled. Therefore we should use the original @console_may_schedule value after re-acquiring the console semaphore in console_unlock(). This patch solves both problems by moving the "again" goto label. Alternative solution was to clear and restore the value around call_console_drivers(). Then console_conditional_schedule() could be used also inside console_unlock(). But there was a potential race with console_flush_on_panic() as reported by Sergey Senozhatsky. That function should be called only where there is only one CPU and with interrupts disabled. But better be on the safe side because stopping CPUs might fail. Fixes: 6b97a20d3a7909 ("printk: set may_schedule for some of console_trylock() callers") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490372045-22288-1-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com Suggested-by: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Jiri Slaby Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

braille-console: Fix value returned by _braille_console_setup

2018-03-22T08:17:45Z

[ Upstream commit 2ed2b8621be2708c0f6d61fe9841e9ad8b9753f0 ] commit bbeddf52adc1 ("printk: move braille console support into separate braille.[ch] files") introduced _braille_console_setup() to outline the braille initialization code. There was however some confusion over the value it was supposed to return. commit 2cfe6c4ac7ee ("printk: Fix return of braille_register_console()") tried to fix it but failed to. This fixes and documents the returned value according to the use in printk.c: non-zero return means a parsing error, and thus this console configuration should be ignored. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault Cc: Aleksey Makarov Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Ming Lei Cc: Steven Rostedt Acked-by: Petr Mladek Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

printk: use rcuidle console tracepoint

2017-02-23T16:44:36Z

commit fc98c3c8c9dcafd67adcce69e6ce3191d5306c9c upstream. Use rcuidle console tracepoint because, apparently, it may be issued from an idle CPU: hw-breakpoint: Failed to enable monitor mode on CPU 0. hw-breakpoint: CPU 0 failed to disable vector catch =============================== [ ERR: suspicious RCU usage. ] 4.10.0-rc8-next-20170215+ #119 Not tainted ------------------------------- ./include/trace/events/printk.h:32 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage! other info that might help us debug this: RCU used illegally from idle CPU! rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 0 RCU used illegally from extended quiescent state! 2 locks held by swapper/0/0: #0: (cpu_pm_notifier_lock){......}, at: [] cpu_pm_exit+0x10/0x54 #1: (console_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [] vprintk_emit+0x264/0x474 stack backtrace: CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.10.0-rc8-next-20170215+ #119 Hardware name: Generic OMAP4 (Flattened Device Tree) console_unlock vprintk_emit vprintk_default printk reset_ctrl_regs dbg_cpu_pm_notify notifier_call_chain cpu_pm_exit omap_enter_idle_coupled cpuidle_enter_state cpuidle_enter_state_coupled do_idle cpu_startup_entry start_kernel This RCU warning, however, is suppressed by lockdep_off() in printk(). lockdep_off() increments the ->lockdep_recursion counter and thus disables RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN() and debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled(), which want lockdep to be enabled "current->lockdep_recursion == 0". Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170217015932.11898-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Reported-by: Tony Lindgren Tested-by: Tony Lindgren Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Tony Lindgren Cc: Russell King Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "printk: make reading the kernel log flush pending lines"

2016-11-14T17:31:52Z

This reverts commit bfd8d3f23b51018388be0411ccbc2d56277fe294. It turns out that this flushes things much too aggressiverly, and causes lines to break up when the system logger races with new continuation lines being printed. There's a pending patch to make printk() flushing much more straightforward, but it's too invasive for 4.9, so in the meantime let's just not make the system message logging flush continuation lines. They'll be flushed by the final newline anyway. Suggested-by: Petr Mladek Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Revert "console: don't prefer first registered if DT specifies stdout-path"

2016-11-11T16:12:37Z

This reverts commit 05fd007e4629 ("console: don't prefer first registered if DT specifies stdout-path"). The reverted commit changes existing behavior on which many ARM boards rely. Many ARM small-board-computers, like e.g. the Raspberry Pi have both a video output and a serial console. Depending on whether the user is using the device as a more regular computer; or as a headless device we need to have the console on either one or the other. Many users rely on the kernel behavior of the console being present on both outputs, before the reverted commit the console setup with no console= kernel arguments on an ARM board which sets stdout-path in dt would look like this: [root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/consoles ttyS0 -W- (EC p a) 4:64 tty0 -WU (E p ) 4:1 Where as after the reverted commit, it looks like this: [root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/consoles ttyS0 -W- (EC p a) 4:64 This commit reverts commit 05fd007e4629 ("console: don't prefer first registered if DT specifies stdout-path") restoring the original behavior. Fixes: 05fd007e4629 ("console: don't prefer first registered if DT specifies stdout-path") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161104121135.4780-2-hdegoede@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede Cc: Paul Burton Cc: Rob Herring Cc: Frank Rowand Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

printk: suppress empty continuation lines

2016-10-19T16:11:24Z

We have a fairly common pattern where you print several things as continuations on one single line in a loop, and then at the end you do printk(KERN_CONT "\n"); to flush the buffered output. But if the output was flushed by something else (concurrent printk activity, or just system logging), we don't want that final flushing to just print an empty line. So just suppress empty continuation lines when they couldn't be merged into the line they are a continuation of. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'printk-cleanups'

2016-10-10T16:29:50Z

Merge my system logging cleanups, triggered by the broken '\n' patches. The line continuation handling has been broken basically forever, and the code to handle the system log records was both confusing and dubious. And it would do entirely the wrong thing unless you always had a terminating newline, partly because it couldn't actually see whether a message was marked KERN_CONT or not (but partly because the LOG_CONT handling in the recording code was rather confusing too). This re-introduces a real semantically meaningful KERN_CONT, and fixes the few places I noticed where it was missing. There are probably more missing cases, since KERN_CONT hasn't actually had any semantic meaning for at least four years (other than the checkpatch meaning of "no log level necessary, this is a continuation line"). This also allows the combination of KERN_CONT and a log level. In that case the log level will be ignored if the merging with a previous line is successful, but if a new record is needed, that new record will now get the right log level. That also means that you can at least in theory combine KERN_CONT with the "pr_info()" style helpers, although any use of pr_fmt() prefixing would make that just result in a mess, of course (the prefix would end up in the middle of a continuing line). * printk-cleanups: printk: make reading the kernel log flush pending lines printk: re-organize log_output() to be more legible printk: split out core logging code into helper function printk: reinstate KERN_CONT for printing continuation lines

printk: make reading the kernel log flush pending lines

2016-10-09T19:23:40Z

That will mean that any possible subsequent continuation will now be broken up onto a line of its own (since reading the log has finalized the beginning og the line), but if user space has activated system logging (or if there's a kernel message dump going on) that is the right thing to do. And now that we actually get the continuation flags _right_ for this all, the user space logger that is reading the kernel messages can actually see the continuation marker. Not that anybody seems to really bother with it (or care), but in theory user space can do its own message stitching. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

printk: re-organize log_output() to be more legible

2016-10-09T19:23:40Z

Avoid some duplicate logic now that we can return early, and update the comments for the new LOG_CONT world order. This also stops the continuation flushing from just using random record flags for the flushing action, instead taking the flags from the proper original line and updating them as we add continuations to it. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

printk: split out core logging code into helper function

2016-10-09T19:23:39Z

The code that actually decides how to log the message (whether to put it directly into the record log, whether to append it to an existing buffered log, or whether to start a new buffered log) is fairly non-obvious code in the middle of the vprintk_emit() function. Splitting that code up into a helper function makes it easier to understand, but perhaps more importantly also allows for the code to just return early out of the helper function once it has made the decision about where the new log content goes. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds