linux-toradex.git/init/main.c, branch v5.11-rc6

Revert "init/console: Use ttynull as a fallback when there is no console"

2021-01-08T19:02:18+00:00

This reverts commit 757055ae8dedf5333af17b3b5b4b70ba9bc9da4e.

The commit caused that ttynull was used as the default console
on several systems[1][2][3]. As a result, the console was
blank even when a better alternative existed.

It happened when there was no console configured
on the command line and ttynull_init() was the first initcall
calling register_console().

Or it happened when /dev/ did not exist when console_on_rootfs()
was called. It was not able to open /dev/console even though
a console driver was registered. It tried to add ttynull console
but it obviously did not help. But ttynull became the preferred
console and was used by /dev/console when it was available later.

The commit tried to fix a historical problem that have been there
for ages. The primary motivation was the commit 3cffa06aeef7ece30f6
("printk/console: Allow to disable console output by using console=""
or console=null"). It provided a clean solution for a workaround
that was widely used and worked only by chance.

This revert causes that the console="" or console=null command line
options will again work only by chance. These options will cause that
a particular console will be preferred and the default (tty) ones
will not get enabled. There will be no console registered at
all. As a result there won't be stdin, stdout, and stderr for
the init process. But it worked exactly this way even before.

The proper solution has to fulfill many conditions:

+ Register ttynull only when explicitly required or as
the ultimate fallback.

+ ttynull should get associated with /dev/console but it must
not become preferred console when used as a fallback.
Especially, it must still be possible to replace it
by a better console later.

Such a change requires clean up of the register_console() code.
Otherwise, it would be even harder to follow. Especially, the use
of has_preferred_console and CON_CONSDEV flag is tricky. The clean
up is risky. The ordering of consoles is not well defined. And
any changes tend to break existing user settings.

Do the revert at the least risky solution for now.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/20201221144302.GR4077@smile.fi.intel.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/d2a3b3c0-e548-7dd1-730f-59bc5c04e191@synopsys.com/
[3] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-um/patch/20210105120128.10854-1-thomas@m3y3r.de/

Reported-by: Andy Shevchenko
Reported-by: Vineet Gupta
Reported-by: Thomas Meyer
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'rcu/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu

2021-01-04T18:55:19+00:00

Pull RCU fix from Paul McKenney:
 "This is a fix for a regression in the v5.10 merge window, but it was
  reported quite late in the v5.10 process, plus generating and testing
  the fix took some time.

  The regression is due to commit 36dadef23fcc ("kprobes: Init kprobes
  in early_initcall") which on powerpc can use RCU Tasks before
  initialization, resulting in boot failures.

  The fix is straightforward, simply moving initialization of RCU Tasks
  before the early_initcall()s. The fix has been exposed to -next and
  kbuild test robot testing, and has been tested by the PowerPC guys"

* 'rcu/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu:
  rcu-tasks: Move RCU-tasks initialization to before early_initcall()

Merge tag 'printk-for-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux

2020-12-16T18:45:11+00:00

Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Finally allow parallel writes and reads into/from the lockless
   ringbuffer. But it is not a complete solution. Readers are still
   serialized against each other. And nested writes are still prevented
   by printk_safe per-CPU buffers.

 - Use ttynull as the ultimate fallback for /dev/console.

 - Officially allow disabling console output by using console="" or
   console=null

 - A few code cleanups

* tag 'printk-for-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux:
  printk: remove logbuf_lock writer-protection of ringbuffer
  printk: inline log_output(),log_store() in vprintk_store()
  printk: remove obsolete dead assignment
  printk/console: Allow to disable console output by using console="" or console=null
  init/console: Use ttynull as a fallback when there is no console
  printk: ringbuffer: Reference text_data_ring directly in callees.

mm, page_alloc: do not rely on the order of page_poison and init_on_alloc/free parameters

2020-12-15T20:13:46+00:00

Patch series "cleanup page poisoning", v3.

I have identified a number of issues and opportunities for cleanup with
CONFIG_PAGE_POISON and friends:

 - interaction with init_on_alloc and init_on_free parameters depends on
   the order of parameters (Patch 1)

 - the boot time enabling uses static key, but inefficienty (Patch 2)

 - sanity checking is incompatible with hibernation (Patch 3)

 - CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY can be removed now that we have
   init_on_free (Patch 4)

 - CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO can be most likely removed now that we
   have init_on_free (Patch 5)

This patch (of 5):

Enabling page_poison=1 together with init_on_alloc=1 or init_on_free=1
produces a warning in dmesg that page_poison takes precedence.  However,
as these warnings are printed in early_param handlers for
init_on_alloc/free, they are not printed if page_poison is enabled later
on the command line (handlers are called in the order of their
parameters), or when init_on_alloc/free is always enabled by the
respective config option - before the page_poison early param handler is
called, it is not considered to be enabled.  This is inconsistent.

We can remove the dependency on order by making the init_on_* parameters
only set a boolean variable, and postponing the evaluation after all early
params have been processed.  Introduce a new
init_mem_debugging_and_hardening() function for that, and move the related
debug_pagealloc processing there as well.

As a result init_mem_debugging_and_hardening() knows always accurately if
init_on_* and/or page_poison options were enabled.  Thus we can also
optimize want_init_on_alloc() and want_init_on_free().  We don't need to
check page_poisoning_enabled() there, we can instead not enable the
init_on_* static keys at all, if page poisoning is enabled.  This results
in a simpler and more effective code.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201113104033.22907-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201113104033.22907-2-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand 
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Cc: Alexander Potapenko 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mateusz Nosek 
Cc: Laura Abbott 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

init/main: fix broken buffer_init when DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT set

2020-12-15T20:13:44+00:00

In the booting phase if CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is set,
we have following callchain:

start_kernel
...
  mm_init
    mem_init
     memblock_free_all
       reset_all_zones_managed_pages
       free_low_memory_core_early
...
  buffer_init
    nr_free_buffer_pages
      zone->managed_pages
...
  rest_init
    kernel_init
      kernel_init_freeable
        page_alloc_init_late
          kthread_run(deferred_init_memmap, NODE_DATA(nid), "pgdatinit%d", nid);
          wait_for_completion(&pgdat_init_all_done_comp);
          ...
          files_maxfiles_init

It's clear that buffer_init depends on zone->managed_pages, but it's reset
in reset_all_zones_managed_pages after that pages are readded into
zone->managed_pages, but when buffer_init runs this process is half done
and most of them will finally be added till deferred_init_memmap done.  In
large memory couting of nr_free_buffer_pages drifts too much, also
drifting from kernels to kernels on same hardware.

Fix is simple, it delays buffer_init run till deferred_init_memmap all
done.

But as corrected by this patch, max_buffer_heads becomes very large, the
value is roughly as many as 4 times of totalram_pages, formula:
max_buffer_heads = nrpages * (10%) * (PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct
buffer_head));

Say in a 64GB memory box we have 16777216 pages, then max_buffer_heads
turns out to be roughly 67,108,864.  In common cases, should a buffer_head
be mapped to one page/block(4KB)?  So max_buffer_heads never exceeds
totalram_pages.  IMO it's likely to make buffer_heads_over_limit bool
value alwasy false, then make codes 'if (buffer_heads_over_limit)' test in
vmscan unnecessary.

So this patch will change the original behavior related to
buffer_heads_over_limit in vmscan since we used a half done value of
zone->managed_pages before, or should we use a smaller factor(<10%) in
previous formula.

akpm: I think this is OK - the max_buffer_heads code is only needed on
highmem machines, to prevent ZONE_NORMAL from being consumed by large
amounts of buffer_heads attached to highmem pagecache.  This problem will
not occur on 64-bit machines, so this feature's non-functionality on such
machines is a feature, not a bug.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201123110500.103523-1-linf@wangsu.com
Signed-off-by: Lin Feng 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: fix page_owner initializing issue for arm32

2020-12-15T20:13:38+00:00

Page owner of pages used by page owner itself used is missing on arm32
targets.  The reason is dummy_handle and failure_handle is not initialized
correctly.  Buddy allocator is used to initialize these two handles.
However, buddy allocator is not ready when page owner calls it.  This
change fixed that by initializing page owner after buddy initialization.

The working flow before and after this change are:
original logic:
 1. allocated memory for page_ext(using memblock).
 2. invoke the init callback of page_ext_ops like page_owner(using buddy
    allocator).
 3. initialize buddy.

after this change:
 1. allocated memory for page_ext(using memblock).
 2. initialize buddy.
 3. invoke the init callback of page_ext_ops like page_owner(using buddy
    allocator).

with the change, failure/dummy_handle can get its correct value and page
owner output for example has the one for page owner itself:

  Page allocated via order 2, mask 0x6202c0(GFP_USER|__GFP_NOWARN), pid 1006, ts 67278156558 ns
  PFN 543776 type Unmovable Block 531 type Unmovable Flags 0x0()
    init_page_owner+0x28/0x2f8
    invoke_init_callbacks_flatmem+0x24/0x34
    start_kernel+0x33c/0x5d8

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1603104925-5888-1-git-send-email-zhenhuah@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Zhenhua Huang 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

rcu-tasks: Move RCU-tasks initialization to before early_initcall()

2020-12-14T23:31:13+00:00

PowerPC testing encountered boot failures due to RCU Tasks not being
fully initialized until core_initcall() time.  This commit therefore
initializes RCU Tasks (along with Rude RCU and RCU Tasks Trace) just
before early_initcall() time, thus allowing waiting on RCU Tasks grace
periods from early_initcall() handlers.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rcu/87eekfh80a.fsf@dja-thinkpad.axtens.net/
Fixes: 36dadef23fcc ("kprobes: Init kprobes in early_initcall")
Tested-by: Daniel Axtens 
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

Merge branch 'for-5.11-null-console' into for-linus

2020-12-14T14:14:57+00:00

bootconfig: Load size and checksum in the footer as le32

2020-12-01T04:22:11+00:00

Load the size and the checksum fields in the footer as le32
instead of u32. This will allow us to apply bootconfig to the
cross build initrd without caring the endianness.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160583934457.547349.10504070298990791074.stgit@devnote2

Reported-by: Steven Rostedt 
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

init/console: Use ttynull as a fallback when there is no console

2020-11-20T11:23:50+00:00

stdin, stdout, and stderr standard I/O stream are created for the init
process. They are not available when there is no console registered
for /dev/console. It might lead to a crash when the init process
tries to use them, see the commit 48021f98130880dd742 ("printk: handle
blank console arguments passed in.").

Normally, ttySX and ttyX consoles are used as a fallback when no consoles
are defined via the command line, device tree, or SPCR. But there
will be no console registered when an invalid console name is configured
or when the configured consoles do not exist on the system.

Users even try to avoid the console intentionally, for example,
by using console="" or console=null. It is used on production
systems where the serial port or terminal are not visible to
users. Pushing messages to these consoles would just unnecessary
slowdown the system.

Make sure that stdin, stdout, stderr, and /dev/console are always
available by a fallback to the existing ttynull driver. It has
been implemented for exactly this purpose but it was used only
when explicitly configured.

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck 
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck 
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky 
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201111135450.11214-2-pmladek@suse.com