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<title>Merge branch 'rework/kthreads' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2022-06-23T17:11:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Mladek</name>
<email>pmladek@suse.com</email>
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<published>2022-06-23T17:11:28+00:00</published>
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<title>Revert "printk: add functions to prefer direct printing"</title>
<updated>2022-06-23T16:41:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Mladek</name>
<email>pmladek@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-23T14:51:57+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 2bb2b7b57f81255c13f4395ea911d6bdc70c9fe2.

The testing of 5.19 release candidates revealed missing synchronization
between early and regular console functionality.

It would be possible to start the console kthreads later as a workaround.
But it is clear that console lock serialized console drivers between
each other. It opens a big area of possible problems that were not
considered by people involved in the development and review.

printk() is crucial for debugging kernel issues and console output is
very important part of it. The number of consoles is huge and a proper
review would take some time. As a result it need to be reverted for 5.19.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YrBdjVwBOVgLfHyb@alley
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220623145157.21938-7-pmladek@suse.com
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This reverts commit 2bb2b7b57f81255c13f4395ea911d6bdc70c9fe2.

The testing of 5.19 release candidates revealed missing synchronization
between early and regular console functionality.

It would be possible to start the console kthreads later as a workaround.
But it is clear that console lock serialized console drivers between
each other. It opens a big area of possible problems that were not
considered by people involved in the development and review.

printk() is crucial for debugging kernel issues and console output is
very important part of it. The number of consoles is huge and a proper
review would take some time. As a result it need to be reverted for 5.19.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YrBdjVwBOVgLfHyb@alley
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220623145157.21938-7-pmladek@suse.com
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<entry>
<title>Revert "printk: Wait for the global console lock when the system is going down"</title>
<updated>2022-06-23T16:41:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Mladek</name>
<email>pmladek@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-23T14:51:52+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit b87f02307d3cfbda768520f0687c51ca77e14fc3.

The testing of 5.19 release candidates revealed missing synchronization
between early and regular console functionality.

It would be possible to start the console kthreads later as a workaround.
But it is clear that console lock serialized console drivers between
each other. It opens a big area of possible problems that were not
considered by people involved in the development and review.

printk() is crucial for debugging kernel issues and console output is
very important part of it. The number of consoles is huge and a proper
review would take some time. As a result it need to be reverted for 5.19.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YrBdjVwBOVgLfHyb@alley
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220623145157.21938-2-pmladek@suse.com
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This reverts commit b87f02307d3cfbda768520f0687c51ca77e14fc3.

The testing of 5.19 release candidates revealed missing synchronization
between early and regular console functionality.

It would be possible to start the console kthreads later as a workaround.
But it is clear that console lock serialized console drivers between
each other. It opens a big area of possible problems that were not
considered by people involved in the development and review.

printk() is crucial for debugging kernel issues and console output is
very important part of it. The number of consoles is huge and a proper
review would take some time. As a result it need to be reverted for 5.19.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YrBdjVwBOVgLfHyb@alley
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220623145157.21938-2-pmladek@suse.com
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'rework/kthreads' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2022-06-17T14:36:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Mladek</name>
<email>pmladek@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-17T14:36:48+00:00</published>
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<title>printk: Wait for the global console lock when the system is going down</title>
<updated>2022-06-15T20:04:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Mladek</name>
<email>pmladek@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-15T16:28:05+00:00</published>
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There are reports that the console kthreads block the global console
lock when the system is going down, for example, reboot, panic.

First part of the solution was to block kthreads in these problematic
system states so they stopped handling newly added messages.

Second part of the solution is to wait when for the kthreads when
they are actively printing. It solves the problem when a message
was printed before the system entered the problematic state and
the kthreads managed to step in.

A busy waiting has to be used because panic() can be called in any
context and in an unknown state of the scheduler.

There must be a timeout because the kthread might get stuck or sleeping
and never release the lock. The timeout 10s is an arbitrary value
inspired by the softlockup timeout.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220610205038.GA3050413@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAMdYzYpF4FNTBPZsEFeWRuEwSies36QM_As8osPWZSr2q-viEA@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220615162805.27962-3-pmladek@suse.com
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There are reports that the console kthreads block the global console
lock when the system is going down, for example, reboot, panic.

First part of the solution was to block kthreads in these problematic
system states so they stopped handling newly added messages.

Second part of the solution is to wait when for the kthreads when
they are actively printing. It solves the problem when a message
was printed before the system entered the problematic state and
the kthreads managed to step in.

A busy waiting has to be used because panic() can be called in any
context and in an unknown state of the scheduler.

There must be a timeout because the kthread might get stuck or sleeping
and never release the lock. The timeout 10s is an arbitrary value
inspired by the softlockup timeout.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220610205038.GA3050413@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAMdYzYpF4FNTBPZsEFeWRuEwSies36QM_As8osPWZSr2q-viEA@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220615162805.27962-3-pmladek@suse.com
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2022-05-26T19:32:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-26T19:32:41+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Almost all of MM here. A few things are still getting finished off,
  reviewed, etc.

   - Yang Shi has improved the behaviour of khugepaged collapsing of
     readonly file-backed transparent hugepages.

   - Johannes Weiner has arranged for zswap memory use to be tracked and
     managed on a per-cgroup basis.

   - Munchun Song adds a /proc knob ("hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap") for
     runtime enablement of the recent huge page vmemmap optimization
     feature.

   - Baolin Wang contributes a series to fix some issues around hugetlb
     pagetable invalidation.

   - Zhenwei Pi has fixed some interactions between hwpoisoned pages and
     virtualization.

   - Tong Tiangen has enabled the use of the presently x86-only
     page_table_check debugging feature on arm64 and riscv.

   - David Vernet has done some fixup work on the memcg selftests.

   - Peter Xu has taught userfaultfd to handle write protection faults
     against shmem- and hugetlbfs-backed files.

   - More DAMON development from SeongJae Park - adding online tuning of
     the feature and support for monitoring of fixed virtual address
     ranges. Also easier discovery of which monitoring operations are
     available.

   - Nadav Amit has done some optimization of TLB flushing during
     mprotect().

   - Neil Brown continues to labor away at improving our swap-over-NFS
     support.

   - David Hildenbrand has some fixes to anon page COWing versus
     get_user_pages().

   - Peng Liu fixed some errors in the core hugetlb code.

   - Joao Martins has reduced the amount of memory consumed by
     device-dax's compound devmaps.

   - Some cleanups of the arch-specific pagemap code from Anshuman
     Khandual.

   - Muchun Song has found and fixed some errors in the TLB flushing of
     transparent hugepages.

   - Roman Gushchin has done more work on the memcg selftests.

  ... and, of course, many smaller fixes and cleanups. Notably, the
  customary million cleanup serieses from Miaohe Lin"

* tag 'mm-stable-2022-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (381 commits)
  mm: kfence: use PAGE_ALIGNED helper
  selftests: vm: add the "settings" file with timeout variable
  selftests: vm: add "test_hmm.sh" to TEST_FILES
  selftests: vm: check numa_available() before operating "merge_across_nodes" in ksm_tests
  selftests: vm: add migration to the .gitignore
  selftests/vm/pkeys: fix typo in comment
  ksm: fix typo in comment
  selftests: vm: add process_mrelease tests
  Revert "mm/vmscan: never demote for memcg reclaim"
  mm/kfence: print disabling or re-enabling message
  include/trace/events/percpu.h: cleanup for "percpu: improve percpu_alloc_percpu event trace"
  include/trace/events/mmflags.h: cleanup for "tracing: incorrect gfp_t conversion"
  mm: fix a potential infinite loop in start_isolate_page_range()
  MAINTAINERS: add Muchun as co-maintainer for HugeTLB
  zram: fix Kconfig dependency warning
  mm/shmem: fix shmem folio swapoff hang
  cgroup: fix an error handling path in alloc_pagecache_max_30M()
  mm: damon: use HPAGE_PMD_SIZE
  tracing: incorrect isolate_mote_t cast in mm_vmscan_lru_isolate
  nodemask.h: fix compilation error with GCC12
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Almost all of MM here. A few things are still getting finished off,
  reviewed, etc.

   - Yang Shi has improved the behaviour of khugepaged collapsing of
     readonly file-backed transparent hugepages.

   - Johannes Weiner has arranged for zswap memory use to be tracked and
     managed on a per-cgroup basis.

   - Munchun Song adds a /proc knob ("hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap") for
     runtime enablement of the recent huge page vmemmap optimization
     feature.

   - Baolin Wang contributes a series to fix some issues around hugetlb
     pagetable invalidation.

   - Zhenwei Pi has fixed some interactions between hwpoisoned pages and
     virtualization.

   - Tong Tiangen has enabled the use of the presently x86-only
     page_table_check debugging feature on arm64 and riscv.

   - David Vernet has done some fixup work on the memcg selftests.

   - Peter Xu has taught userfaultfd to handle write protection faults
     against shmem- and hugetlbfs-backed files.

   - More DAMON development from SeongJae Park - adding online tuning of
     the feature and support for monitoring of fixed virtual address
     ranges. Also easier discovery of which monitoring operations are
     available.

   - Nadav Amit has done some optimization of TLB flushing during
     mprotect().

   - Neil Brown continues to labor away at improving our swap-over-NFS
     support.

   - David Hildenbrand has some fixes to anon page COWing versus
     get_user_pages().

   - Peng Liu fixed some errors in the core hugetlb code.

   - Joao Martins has reduced the amount of memory consumed by
     device-dax's compound devmaps.

   - Some cleanups of the arch-specific pagemap code from Anshuman
     Khandual.

   - Muchun Song has found and fixed some errors in the TLB flushing of
     transparent hugepages.

   - Roman Gushchin has done more work on the memcg selftests.

  ... and, of course, many smaller fixes and cleanups. Notably, the
  customary million cleanup serieses from Miaohe Lin"

* tag 'mm-stable-2022-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (381 commits)
  mm: kfence: use PAGE_ALIGNED helper
  selftests: vm: add the "settings" file with timeout variable
  selftests: vm: add "test_hmm.sh" to TEST_FILES
  selftests: vm: check numa_available() before operating "merge_across_nodes" in ksm_tests
  selftests: vm: add migration to the .gitignore
  selftests/vm/pkeys: fix typo in comment
  ksm: fix typo in comment
  selftests: vm: add process_mrelease tests
  Revert "mm/vmscan: never demote for memcg reclaim"
  mm/kfence: print disabling or re-enabling message
  include/trace/events/percpu.h: cleanup for "percpu: improve percpu_alloc_percpu event trace"
  include/trace/events/mmflags.h: cleanup for "tracing: incorrect gfp_t conversion"
  mm: fix a potential infinite loop in start_isolate_page_range()
  MAINTAINERS: add Muchun as co-maintainer for HugeTLB
  zram: fix Kconfig dependency warning
  mm/shmem: fix shmem folio swapoff hang
  cgroup: fix an error handling path in alloc_pagecache_max_30M()
  mm: damon: use HPAGE_PMD_SIZE
  tracing: incorrect isolate_mote_t cast in mm_vmscan_lru_isolate
  nodemask.h: fix compilation error with GCC12
  ...
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<entry>
<title>printk: stop including cache.h from printk.h</title>
<updated>2022-05-13T14:20:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Collingbourne</name>
<email>pcc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-10T01:20:53+00:00</published>
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An inclusion of cache.h in printk.h was added in 2014 in commit
c28aa1f0a847 ("printk/cache: mark printk_once test variable
__read_mostly") in order to bring in the definition of __read_mostly.  The
usage of __read_mostly was later removed in commit 3ec25826ae33 ("printk:
Tie printk_once / printk_deferred_once into .data.once for reset") which
made the inclusion of cache.h unnecessary, so remove it.

We have a small amount of code that depended on the inclusion of cache.h
from printk.h; fix that code to include the appropriate header.

This fixes a circular inclusion on arm64 (linux/printk.h -&gt; linux/cache.h
-&gt; asm/cache.h -&gt; linux/kasan-enabled.h -&gt; linux/static_key.h -&gt;
linux/jump_label.h -&gt; linux/bug.h -&gt; asm/bug.h -&gt; linux/printk.h) that
would otherwise be introduced by the next patch.

Build tested using {allyesconfig,defconfig} x {arm64,x86_64}.

Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I8fd51f72c9ef1f2d6afd3b2cbc875aa4792c1fba
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220427195820.1716975-1-pcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne &lt;pcc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo &lt;42.hyeyoo@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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An inclusion of cache.h in printk.h was added in 2014 in commit
c28aa1f0a847 ("printk/cache: mark printk_once test variable
__read_mostly") in order to bring in the definition of __read_mostly.  The
usage of __read_mostly was later removed in commit 3ec25826ae33 ("printk:
Tie printk_once / printk_deferred_once into .data.once for reset") which
made the inclusion of cache.h unnecessary, so remove it.

We have a small amount of code that depended on the inclusion of cache.h
from printk.h; fix that code to include the appropriate header.

This fixes a circular inclusion on arm64 (linux/printk.h -&gt; linux/cache.h
-&gt; asm/cache.h -&gt; linux/kasan-enabled.h -&gt; linux/static_key.h -&gt;
linux/jump_label.h -&gt; linux/bug.h -&gt; asm/bug.h -&gt; linux/printk.h) that
would otherwise be introduced by the next patch.

Build tested using {allyesconfig,defconfig} x {arm64,x86_64}.

Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I8fd51f72c9ef1f2d6afd3b2cbc875aa4792c1fba
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220427195820.1716975-1-pcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne &lt;pcc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo &lt;42.hyeyoo@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>printk: add functions to prefer direct printing</title>
<updated>2022-04-22T19:30:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Ogness</name>
<email>john.ogness@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-21T21:22:47+00:00</published>
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Once kthread printing is available, console printing will no longer
occur in the context of the printk caller. However, there are some
special contexts where it is desirable for the printk caller to
directly print out kernel messages. Using pr_flush() to wait for
threaded printers is only possible if the caller is in a sleepable
context and the kthreads are active. That is not always the case.

Introduce printk_prefer_direct_enter() and printk_prefer_direct_exit()
functions to explicitly (and globally) activate/deactivate preferred
direct console printing. The term "direct console printing" refers to
printing to all enabled consoles from the context of the printk
caller. The term "prefer" is used because this type of printing is
only best effort. If the console is currently locked or other
printers are already actively printing, the printk caller will need
to rely on the other contexts to handle the printing.

This preferred direct printing is how all printing has been handled
until now (unless it was explicitly deferred).

When kthread printing is introduced, there may be some unanticipated
problems due to kthreads being unable to flush important messages.
In order to minimize such risks, preferred direct printing is
activated for the primary important messages when the system
experiences general types of major errors. These are:

 - emergency reboot/shutdown
 - cpu and rcu stalls
 - hard and soft lockups
 - hung tasks
 - warn
 - sysrq

Note that since kthread printing does not yet exist, no behavior
changes result from this commit. This is only implementing the
counter and marking the various places where preferred direct
printing is active.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt; # for RCU
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220421212250.565456-13-john.ogness@linutronix.de
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Once kthread printing is available, console printing will no longer
occur in the context of the printk caller. However, there are some
special contexts where it is desirable for the printk caller to
directly print out kernel messages. Using pr_flush() to wait for
threaded printers is only possible if the caller is in a sleepable
context and the kthreads are active. That is not always the case.

Introduce printk_prefer_direct_enter() and printk_prefer_direct_exit()
functions to explicitly (and globally) activate/deactivate preferred
direct console printing. The term "direct console printing" refers to
printing to all enabled consoles from the context of the printk
caller. The term "prefer" is used because this type of printing is
only best effort. If the console is currently locked or other
printers are already actively printing, the printk caller will need
to rely on the other contexts to handle the printing.

This preferred direct printing is how all printing has been handled
until now (unless it was explicitly deferred).

When kthread printing is introduced, there may be some unanticipated
problems due to kthreads being unable to flush important messages.
In order to minimize such risks, preferred direct printing is
activated for the primary important messages when the system
experiences general types of major errors. These are:

 - emergency reboot/shutdown
 - cpu and rcu stalls
 - hard and soft lockups
 - hung tasks
 - warn
 - sysrq

Note that since kthread printing does not yet exist, no behavior
changes result from this commit. This is only implementing the
counter and marking the various places where preferred direct
printing is active.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt; # for RCU
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220421212250.565456-13-john.ogness@linutronix.de
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<title>printk: add pr_flush()</title>
<updated>2022-04-22T19:30:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Ogness</name>
<email>john.ogness@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-21T21:22:46+00:00</published>
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Provide a might-sleep function to allow waiting for console printers
to catch up to the latest logged message.

Use pr_flush() whenever it is desirable to get buffered messages
printed before continuing: suspend_console(), resume_console(),
console_stop(), console_start(), console_unblank().

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/20220421212250.565456-12-john.ogness@linutronix.de
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Provide a might-sleep function to allow waiting for console printers
to catch up to the latest logged message.

Use pr_flush() whenever it is desirable to get buffered messages
printed before continuing: suspend_console(), resume_console(),
console_stop(), console_start(), console_unblank().

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/20220421212250.565456-12-john.ogness@linutronix.de
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<entry>
<title>printk: cpu sync always disable interrupts</title>
<updated>2022-04-22T19:30:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Ogness</name>
<email>john.ogness@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-21T21:22:37+00:00</published>
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The CPU sync functions are a NOP for !CONFIG_SMP. But for
!CONFIG_SMP they still need to disable interrupts in order to
preserve context within the CPU sync sections.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;senozhatsky@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220421212250.565456-3-john.ogness@linutronix.de
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The CPU sync functions are a NOP for !CONFIG_SMP. But for
!CONFIG_SMP they still need to disable interrupts in order to
preserve context within the CPU sync sections.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;senozhatsky@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220421212250.565456-3-john.ogness@linutronix.de
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