linux/debian/patches/features/all/rt/printk-kill.patch

Subject: printk-kill.patch
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:58:40 +0200
Origin: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/4.0/patches-4.0.5-rt3.tar.xz

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
---
 include/linux/printk.h |    2 +
 kernel/printk/printk.c |   76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 kernel/watchdog.c      |   14 +++++++--
 3 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/printk.h
+++ b/include/linux/printk.h
@@ -115,9 +115,11 @@ int no_printk(const char *fmt, ...)
 #ifdef CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK
 extern asmlinkage __printf(1, 2)
 void early_printk(const char *fmt, ...);
+extern void printk_kill(void);
 #else
 static inline __printf(1, 2) __cold
 void early_printk(const char *s, ...) { }
+static inline void printk_kill(void) { }
 #endif
 
 typedef int(*printk_func_t)(const char *fmt, va_list args);
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -1610,6 +1610,55 @@ static size_t cont_print_text(char *text
 	return textlen;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK
+struct console *early_console;
+
+static void early_vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list ap)
+{
+	if (early_console) {
+		char buf[512];
+		int n = vscnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt, ap);
+
+		early_console->write(early_console, buf, n);
+	}
+}
+
+asmlinkage void early_printk(const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+	va_list ap;
+
+	va_start(ap, fmt);
+	early_vprintk(fmt, ap);
+	va_end(ap);
+}
+
+/*
+ * This is independent of any log levels - a global
+ * kill switch that turns off all of printk.
+ *
+ * Used by the NMI watchdog if early-printk is enabled.
+ */
+static bool __read_mostly printk_killswitch;
+
+void printk_kill(void)
+{
+	printk_killswitch = true;
+}
+
+static int forced_early_printk(const char *fmt, va_list ap)
+{
+	if (!printk_killswitch)
+		return 0;
+	early_vprintk(fmt, ap);
+	return 1;
+}
+#else
+static inline int forced_early_printk(const char *fmt, va_list ap)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+#endif
+
 asmlinkage int vprintk_emit(int facility, int level,
 			    const char *dict, size_t dictlen,
 			    const char *fmt, va_list args)
@@ -1626,6 +1675,13 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk_emit(int facility
 	/* cpu currently holding logbuf_lock in this function */
 	static unsigned int logbuf_cpu = UINT_MAX;
 
+	/*
+	 * Fall back to early_printk if a debugging subsystem has
+	 * killed printk output
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(forced_early_printk(fmt, args)))
+		return 1;
+
 	if (level == LOGLEVEL_SCHED) {
 		level = LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT;
 		in_sched = true;
@@ -1905,26 +1961,6 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(printk_func_t, printk_fun
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_PRINTK */
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK
-struct console *early_console;
-
-asmlinkage __visible void early_printk(const char *fmt, ...)
-{
-	va_list ap;
-	char buf[512];
-	int n;
-
-	if (!early_console)
-		return;
-
-	va_start(ap, fmt);
-	n = vscnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt, ap);
-	va_end(ap);
-
-	early_console->write(early_console, buf, n);
-}
-#endif
-
 static int __add_preferred_console(char *name, int idx, char *options,
 				   char *brl_options)
 {
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -248,6 +248,8 @@ static int is_softlockup(unsigned long t
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
 
+static DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(watchdog_output_lock);
+
 static struct perf_event_attr wd_hw_attr = {
 	.type		= PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE,
 	.config		= PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES,
@@ -281,13 +283,21 @@ static void watchdog_overflow_callback(s
 		/* only print hardlockups once */
 		if (__this_cpu_read(hard_watchdog_warn) == true)
 			return;
+		/*
+		 * If early-printk is enabled then make sure we do not
+		 * lock up in printk() and kill console logging:
+		 */
+		printk_kill();
 
-		if (hardlockup_panic)
+		if (hardlockup_panic) {
 			panic("Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu %d",
 			      this_cpu);
-		else
+		} else {
+			raw_spin_lock(&watchdog_output_lock);
 			WARN(1, "Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu %d",
 			     this_cpu);
+			raw_spin_unlock(&watchdog_output_lock);
+		}
 
 		__this_cpu_write(hard_watchdog_warn, true);
 		return;