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authorJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>2011-07-28 12:42:23 -0500
committerClark Williams <williams@redhat.com>2012-04-13 11:01:51 -0500
commite1bec773e5e6fa5f5007b6b3350b7d11c09f502f (patch)
treef0997314f7a756047edcf3a88aae74a33c5e0e99
parentae619e9b7cbc0d368015b6abd357fdcfa4cb094f (diff)
kgdb/serial: Short term workaround
On 07/27/2011 04:37 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > - KGDB (not yet disabled) is reportedly unusable on -rt right now due > to missing hacks in the console locking which I dropped on purpose. > To work around this in the short term you can use this patch, in addition to the clocksource watchdog patch that Thomas brewed up. Comments are welcome of course. Ultimately the right solution is to change separation between the console and the HW to have a polled mode + work queue so as not to introduce any kind of latency. Thanks, Jason.
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.c3
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kdb.h2
-rw-r--r--kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c6
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.c
index bda48d455f4b..df14cac236c7 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
#include <linux/nmi.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/kdb.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_SPARC
#include <linux/sunserialcore.h>
#endif
@@ -2816,7 +2817,7 @@ serial8250_console_write(struct console *co, const char *s, unsigned int count)
touch_nmi_watchdog();
- if (port->sysrq || oops_in_progress)
+ if (port->sysrq || oops_in_progress || in_kdb_printk())
locked = spin_trylock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
else
spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
diff --git a/include/linux/kdb.h b/include/linux/kdb.h
index 064725854db8..0d1ebfc9ff43 100644
--- a/include/linux/kdb.h
+++ b/include/linux/kdb.h
@@ -150,12 +150,14 @@ extern int kdb_register(char *, kdb_func_t, char *, char *, short);
extern int kdb_register_repeat(char *, kdb_func_t, char *, char *,
short, kdb_repeat_t);
extern int kdb_unregister(char *);
+#define in_kdb_printk() (kdb_trap_printk)
#else /* ! CONFIG_KGDB_KDB */
#define kdb_printf(...)
#define kdb_init(x)
#define kdb_register(...)
#define kdb_register_repeat(...)
#define kdb_uregister(x)
+#define in_kdb_printk() (0)
#endif /* CONFIG_KGDB_KDB */
enum {
KDB_NOT_INITIALIZED,
diff --git a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c
index bb9520f0f6ff..eb68a9dd0f11 100644
--- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c
+++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c
@@ -553,7 +553,6 @@ int vkdb_printf(const char *fmt, va_list ap)
int diag;
int linecount;
int logging, saved_loglevel = 0;
- int saved_trap_printk;
int got_printf_lock = 0;
int retlen = 0;
int fnd, len;
@@ -564,8 +563,6 @@ int vkdb_printf(const char *fmt, va_list ap)
unsigned long uninitialized_var(flags);
preempt_disable();
- saved_trap_printk = kdb_trap_printk;
- kdb_trap_printk = 0;
/* Serialize kdb_printf if multiple cpus try to write at once.
* But if any cpu goes recursive in kdb, just print the output,
@@ -821,7 +818,6 @@ kdb_print_out:
} else {
__release(kdb_printf_lock);
}
- kdb_trap_printk = saved_trap_printk;
preempt_enable();
return retlen;
}
@@ -831,9 +827,11 @@ int kdb_printf(const char *fmt, ...)
va_list ap;
int r;
+ kdb_trap_printk++;
va_start(ap, fmt);
r = vkdb_printf(fmt, ap);
va_end(ap);
+ kdb_trap_printk--;
return r;
}