linux-toradex.git/kernel/printk, branch v4.13-rc5

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk

2017-07-05T18:11:26+00:00

Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Store printk() messages into the main log buffer directly even in NMI
   when the lock is available. It is the best effort to print even large
   chunk of text. It is handy, for example, when all ftrace messages are
   printed during the system panic in NMI.

 - Add missing annotations to calm down compiler warnings

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk:
  printk: add __printf attributes to internal functions
  printk: Use the main logbuf in NMI when logbuf_lock is available

Merge branch 'for-4.13' into for-linus

2017-07-03T13:33:39+00:00

Merge branch 'WIP.sched/core' into sched/core

2017-06-20T10:28:21+00:00

 Conflicts:
	kernel/sched/Makefile

Pick up the waitqueue related renames - it didn't get much feedback,
so it appears to be uncontroversial. Famous last words? ;-)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

printk: add __printf attributes to internal functions

2017-06-13T14:36:02+00:00

When compiling with -Wsuggest-attribute=format, gcc complains that some
functions in kernel/printk/printk_safe.c transmit their argument to
printf-like functions without having a printf attribute. Silence these
warnings by adding relevant __printf attributes.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170524054950.6722-1-nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss 
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky 
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk

2017-06-08T17:50:04+00:00

Pull printk fix from Petr Mladek:
 "This reverts a fix added into 4.12-rc1. It caused the kernel log to be
  printed on another console when two consoles of the same type were
  defined, e.g. console=ttyS0 console=ttyS1.

  This configuration was never supported by kernel itself, but it
  started to make sense with systemd. In other words, the commit broke
  userspace"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk:
  Revert "printk: fix double printing with earlycon"

Revert "printk: fix double printing with earlycon"

2017-06-08T10:06:00+00:00

This reverts commit cf39bf58afdaabc0b86f141630fb3fd18190294e.

The commit regression to users that define both console=ttyS1
and console=ttyS0 on the command line, see
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170509082915.GA13236@bistromath.localdomain

The kernel log messages always appeared only on one serial port. It is
even documented in Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst:

"Note that you can only define one console per device type (serial,
video)."

The above mentioned commit changed the order in which the command line
parameters are searched. As a result, the kernel log messages go to
the last mentioned ttyS* instead of the first one.

We long thought that using two console=ttyS* on the command line
did not make sense. But then we realized that console= parameters
were handled also by systemd, see
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/serial-console.html

"By default systemd will instantiate one serial-getty@.service on
the main kernel console, if it is not a virtual terminal."

where

"[4] If multiple kernel consoles are used simultaneously, the main
console is the one listed first in /sys/class/tty/console/active,
which is the last one listed on the kernel command line."

This puts the original report into another light. The system is running
in qemu. The first serial port is used to store the messages into a file.
The second one is used to login to the system via a socket. It depends
on systemd and the historic kernel behavior.

By other words, systemd causes that it makes sense to define both
console=ttyS1 console=ttyS0 on the command line. The kernel fix
caused regression related to userspace (systemd) and need to be
reverted.

In addition, it went out that the fix helped only partially.
The messages still were duplicated when the boot console was
removed early by late_initcall(printk_late_init). Then the entire
log was replayed when the same console was registered as a normal one.

Link: 20170606160339.GC7604@pathway.suse.cz
Cc: Aleksey Makarov 
Cc: Sabrina Dubroca 
Cc: Sudeep Holla 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Peter Hurley 
Cc: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: Robin Murphy ,
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: "Nair, Jayachandran" 
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Sabrina Dubroca 
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky 
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek

printk: Adjust system_state checks

2017-05-23T08:01:37+00:00

To enable smp_processor_id() and might_sleep() debug checks earlier, it's
required to add system states between SYSTEM_BOOTING and SYSTEM_RUNNING.

Adjust the system_state check in boot_delay_msec() to handle the extra
states.

Tested-by: Mark Rutland 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170516184736.027534895@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

printk: Use the main logbuf in NMI when logbuf_lock is available

2017-05-19T12:42:19+00:00

The commit 42a0bb3f71383b457a7d ("printk/nmi: generic solution for safe
printk in NMI") caused that printk stores messages into a temporary
buffer in NMI context.

The buffer is per-CPU and therefore the size is rather limited.
It works quite well for NMI backtraces. But there are longer logs
that might get printed in NMI context, for example, lockdep
warnings, ftrace_dump_on_oops.

The temporary buffer is used to avoid deadlocks caused by
logbuf_lock. Also it is needed to avoid races with the other
temporary buffer that is used when PRINTK_SAFE_CONTEXT is entered.
But the main buffer can be used in NMI if the lock is available
and we did not interrupt PRINTK_SAFE_CONTEXT.

The lock is checked using raw_spin_is_locked(). It might cause
false negatives when the lock is taken on another CPU and
this CPU is in the safe context from other reasons. Note that
the safe context is used also to get console semaphore or when
calling console drivers. For this reason, we do the check in
printk_nmi_enter(). It makes the handling consistent for
the entire NMI handler and avoids reshuffling of the messages.

The patch also defines special printk context that allows
to use printk_deferred() in NMI. Note that we could not flush
the messages to the consoles because console drivers might use
many other internal locks.

The newly created vprintk_deferred() disables the preemption
only around the irq work handling. It is needed there to keep
the consistency between the two per-CPU variables. But there
is no reason to disable preemption around vprintk_emit().

Finally, the patch puts back explicit serialization of the NMI
backtraces from different CPUs. It was removed by the
commit a9edc88093287183ac934b ("x86/nmi: Perform a safe
NMI stack trace on all CPUs"). It was not needed because
the flushing of the temporary per-CPU buffers was serialized.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1493912763-24873-1-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Daniel Thompson 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky 
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky 
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek

Merge tag 'tty-4.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty

2017-05-09T01:49:23+00:00

Pull tty/serial updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the "big" TTY/Serial patch updates for 4.12-rc1

  Not a lot of new things here, the normal number of serial driver
  updates and additions, tiny bugs fixed, and some core files split up
  to make future changes a bit easier for Nicolas's "tiny-tty" work.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while"

* tag 'tty-4.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (62 commits)
  serial: small Makefile reordering
  tty: split job control support into a file of its own
  tty: move baudrate handling code to a file of its own
  console: move console_init() out of tty_io.c
  serial: 8250_early: Add earlycon support for Palmchip UART
  tty: pl011: use "qdf2400_e44" as the earlycon name for QDF2400 E44
  vt: make mouse selection of non-ASCII consistent
  vt: set mouse selection word-chars to gpm's default
  imx-serial: Reduce RX DMA startup latency when opening for reading
  serial: omap: suspend device on probe errors
  serial: omap: fix runtime-pm handling on unbind
  tty: serial: omap: add UPF_BOOT_AUTOCONF flag for DT init
  serial: samsung: Remove useless spinlock
  serial: samsung: Add missing checks for dma_map_single failure
  serial: samsung: Use right device for DMA-mapping calls
  serial: imx: setup DCEDTE early and ensure DCD and RI irqs to be off
  tty: fix comment typo s/repsonsible/responsible/
  tty: amba-pl011: Fix spurious TX interrupts
  serial: xuartps: Enable clocks in the pm disable case also
  serial: core: Re-use struct uart_port {name} field
  ...

crash: move crashkernel parsing and vmcore related code under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE

2017-05-09T00:15:11+00:00

Patch series "kexec/fadump: remove dependency with CONFIG_KEXEC and
reuse crashkernel parameter for fadump", v4.

Traditionally, kdump is used to save vmcore in case of a crash.  Some
architectures like powerpc can save vmcore using architecture specific
support instead of kexec/kdump mechanism.  Such architecture specific
support also needs to reserve memory, to be used by dump capture kernel.
crashkernel parameter can be a reused, for memory reservation, by such
architecture specific infrastructure.

This patchset removes dependency with CONFIG_KEXEC for crashkernel
parameter and vmcoreinfo related code as it can be reused without kexec
support.  Also, crashkernel parameter is reused instead of
fadump_reserve_mem to reserve memory for fadump.

The first patch moves crashkernel parameter parsing and vmcoreinfo
related code under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE instead of CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE.  The
second patch reuses the definitions of append_elf_note() & final_note()
functions under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE in IA64 arch code.  The third patch
removes dependency on CONFIG_KEXEC for firmware-assisted dump (fadump)
in powerpc.  The next patch reuses crashkernel parameter for reserving
memory for fadump, instead of the fadump_reserve_mem parameter.  This
has the advantage of using all syntaxes crashkernel parameter supports,
for fadump as well.  The last patch updates fadump kernel documentation
about use of crashkernel parameter.

This patch (of 5):

Traditionally, kdump is used to save vmcore in case of a crash.  Some
architectures like powerpc can save vmcore using architecture specific
support instead of kexec/kdump mechanism.  Such architecture specific
support also needs to reserve memory, to be used by dump capture kernel.
crashkernel parameter can be a reused, for memory reservation, by such
architecture specific infrastructure.

But currently, code related to vmcoreinfo and parsing of crashkernel
parameter is built under CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE.  This patch introduces
CONFIG_CRASH_CORE and moves the above mentioned code under this config,
allowing code reuse without dependency on CONFIG_KEXEC.  There is no
functional change with this patch.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/149035338104.6881.4550894432615189948.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini 
Acked-by: Dave Young 
Cc: Fenghua Yu 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Eric Biederman 
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar 
Cc: Vivek Goyal 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds