do_con_write(), fbcon_redraw.*() invoke console_conditional_schedule()
which is a conditional scheduling point based on printk's internal
variables console_may_schedule. It may only be used if the console lock
is acquired for instance via console_lock() or console_trylock().
Prinkt sets the internal variable to 1 (and allows to schedule)
if the console lock has been acquired via console_lock(). The trylock
does not allow it.
The console_conditional_schedule() invocation in do_con_write() is
invoked shortly before console_unlock().
The console_conditional_schedule() invocation in fbcon_redraw.*()
original from fbcon_scroll() / vt's con_scroll() which originate from a
line feed.
In console_unlock() the variable is set to 0 (forbids to schedule) and
it tries to schedule while making progress printing. This is brand new
compared to when console_conditional_schedule() was added in v2.4.9.11.
In v2.6.38-rc3, console_unlock() (started its existence) iterated over
all consoles and flushed them with disabled interrupts. A scheduling
attempt here was not possible, it relied that a long print scheduled
before console_unlock().
Since commit 8d91f8b153 ("printk: do cond_resched() between lines
while outputting to consoles"), which appeared in v4.5-rc1,
console_unlock() attempts to schedule if it was allowed to schedule
while during console_lock(). Each record is idealy one line so after
every line feed.
This console_conditional_schedule() is also only relevant on
PREEMPT_NONE and PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY builds. In other configurations
cond_resched() becomes a nop and has no impact.
I'm bringing this all up just proof that it is not required anymore. It
becomes a problem on a PREEMPT_RT build with debug code enabled because
that might_sleep() in cond_resched() remains and triggers a warnings.
This is due to
legacy_kthread_func-> console_flush_one_record -> vt_console_print-> lf
-> con_scroll -> fbcon_scroll
and vt_console_print() acquires a spinlock_t which does not allow a
voluntary schedule. There is no need to fb_scroll() to schedule since
console_flush_one_record() attempts to schedule after each line.
!PREEMPT_RT is not affected because the legacy printing thread is only
enabled on PREEMPT_RT builds.
Therefore I suggest to remove console_conditional_schedule().
Cc: Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Fixes: 5f53ca3ff8 ("printk: Implement legacy printer kthread for PREEMPT_RT")
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> # from printk() POV
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
"Core & protocols:
- A significant effort all around the stack to guide the compiler to
make the right choice when inlining code, to avoid unneeded calls
for small helper and stack canary overhead in the fast-path.
This generates better and faster code with very small or no text
size increases, as in many cases the call generated more code than
the actual inlined helper.
- Extend AccECN implementation so that is now functionally complete,
also allow the user-space enabling it on a per network namespace
basis.
- Add support for memory providers with large (above 4K) rx buffer.
Paired with hw-gro, larger rx buffer sizes reduce the number of
buffers traversing the stack, dincreasing single stream CPU usage
by up to ~30%.
- Do not add HBH header to Big TCP GSO packets. This simplifies the
RX path, the TX path and the NIC drivers, and is possible because
user-space taps can now interpret correctly such packets without
the HBH hint.
- Allow IPv6 routes to be configured with a gateway address that is
resolved out of a different interface than the one specified,
aligning IPv6 to IPv4 behavior.
- Multi-queue aware sch_cake. This makes it possible to scale the
rate shaper of sch_cake across multiple CPUs, while still enforcing
a single global rate on the interface.
- Add support for the nbcon (new buffer console) infrastructure to
netconsole, enabling lock-free, priority-based console operations
that are safer in crash scenarios.
- Improve the TCP ipv6 output path to cache the flow information,
saving cpu cycles, reducing cache line misses and stack use.
- Improve netfilter packet tracker to resolve clashes for most
protocols, avoiding unneeded drops on rare occasions.
- Add IP6IP6 tunneling acceleration to the flowtable infrastructure.
- Reduce tcp socket size by one cache line.
- Notify neighbour changes atomically, avoiding inconsistencies
between the notification sequence and the actual states sequence.
- Add vsock namespace support, allowing complete isolation of vsocks
across different network namespaces.
- Improve xsk generic performances with cache-alignment-oriented
optimizations.
- Support netconsole automatic target recovery, allowing netconsole
to reestablish targets when underlying low-level interface comes
back online.
Driver API:
- Support for switching the working mode (automatic vs manual) of a
DPLL device via netlink.
- Introduce PHY ports representation to expose multiple front-facing
media ports over a single MAC.
- Introduce "rx-polarity" and "tx-polarity" device tree properties,
to generalize polarity inversion requirements for differential
signaling.
- Add helper to create, prepare and enable managed clocks.
Device drivers:
- Add Huawei hinic3 PF etherner driver.
- Add DWMAC glue driver for Motorcomm YT6801 PCIe ethernet
controller.
- Add ethernet driver for MaxLinear MxL862xx switches
- Remove parallel-port Ethernet driver.
- Convert existing driver timestamp configuration reporting to
hwtstamp_get and remove legacy ioctl().
- Convert existing drivers to .get_rx_ring_count(), simplifing the RX
ring count retrieval. Also remove the legacy fallback path.
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- Broadcom (bnxt, bng):
- bnxt: add FW interface update to support FEC stats histogram
and NVRAM defragmentation
- bng: add TSO and H/W GRO support
- nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
- improve latency of channel restart operations, reducing the
used H/W resources
- add TSO support for UDP over GRE over VLAN
- add flow counters support for hardware steering (HWS) rules
- use a static memory area to store headers for H/W GRO,
leading to 12% RX tput improvement
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- ice: reorganizes layout of Tx and Rx rings for cacheline
locality and utilizes __cacheline_group* macros on the new
layouts
- ice: introduces Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) support
- Meta (fbnic):
- adds debugfs for firmware mailbox and tx/rx rings vectors
- Ethernet virtual:
- geneve: introduce GRO/GSO support for double UDP encapsulation
- Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- some code refactoring and cleanups
- RealTek (r8169):
- add support for RTL8127ATF (10G Fiber SFP)
- add dash and LTR support
- Airoha:
- AN8811HB 2.5 Gbps phy support
- Freescale (fec):
- add XDP zero-copy support
- Thunderbolt:
- add get link setting support to allow bonding
- Renesas:
- add support for RZ/G3L GBETH SoC
- Ethernet switches:
- Maxlinear:
- support R(G)MII slow rate configuration
- add support for Intel GSW150
- Motorcomm (yt921x):
- add DCB/QoS support
- TI:
- icssm-prueth: support bridging (STP/RSTP) via the switchdev
framework
- Ethernet PHYs:
- Realtek:
- enable SGMII and 2500Base-X in-band auto-negotiation
- simplify and reunify C22/C45 drivers
- Micrel: convert bindings to DT schema
- CAN:
- move skb headroom content into skb extensions, making CAN
metadata access more robust
- CAN drivers:
- rcar_canfd:
- add support for FD-only mode
- add support for the RZ/T2H SoC
- sja1000: cleanup the CAN state handling
- WiFi:
- implement EPPKE/802.1X over auth frames support
- split up drop reasons better, removing generic RX_DROP
- additional FTM capabilities: 6 GHz support, supported number of
spatial streams and supported number of LTF repetitions
- better mac80211 iterators to enumerate resources
- initial UHR (Wi-Fi 8) support for cfg80211/mac80211
- WiFi drivers:
- Qualcomm/Atheros:
- ath11k: support for Channel Frequency Response measurement
- ath12k: a significant driver refactor to support multi-wiphy
devices and and pave the way for future device support in the
same driver (rather than splitting to ath13k)
- ath12k: support for the QCC2072 chipset
- Intel:
- iwlwifi: partial Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support
- iwlwifi: initial support for U-NII-9 and IEEE 802.11bn
- RealTek (rtw89):
- preparations for RTL8922DE support
- Bluetooth:
- implement setsockopt(BT_PHY) to set the connection packet type/PHY
- set link_policy on incoming ACL connections
- Bluetooth drivers:
- btusb: add support for MediaTek7920, Realtek RTL8761BU and 8851BE
- btqca: add WCN6855 firmware priority selection feature"
* tag 'net-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1254 commits)
bnge/bng_re: Add a new HSI
net: macb: Fix tx/rx malfunction after phy link down and up
af_unix: Fix memleak of newsk in unix_stream_connect().
net: ti: icssg-prueth: Add optional dependency on HSR
net: dsa: add basic initial driver for MxL862xx switches
net: mdio: add unlocked mdiodev C45 bus accessors
net: dsa: add tag format for MxL862xx switches
dt-bindings: net: dsa: add MaxLinear MxL862xx
selftests: drivers: net: hw: Modify toeplitz.c to poll for packets
octeontx2-pf: Unregister devlink on probe failure
net: renesas: rswitch: fix forwarding offload statemachine
ionic: Rate limit unknown xcvr type messages
tcp: inet6_csk_xmit() optimization
tcp: populate inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock()
tcp: populate inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 in tcp_v6_connect()
ipv6: inet6_csk_xmit() and inet6_csk_update_pmtu() use inet->cork.fl.u.ip6
ipv6: use inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 and np->final in ip6_datagram_dst_update()
ipv6: use np->final in inet6_sk_rebuild_header()
ipv6: add daddr/final storage in struct ipv6_pinfo
net: stmmac: qcom-ethqos: fix qcom_ethqos_serdes_powerup()
...
Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie:
"Highlights:
- amdgpu support for lots of new IP blocks which means newer GPUs
- xe has a lot of SR-IOV and SVM improvements
- lots of intel display refactoring across i915/xe
- msm has more support for gen8 platforms
- Given up on kgdb/kms integration, it's too hard on modern hw
core:
- drop kgdb support
- replace system workqueue with percpu
- account for property blobs in memcg
- MAINTAINERS updates for xe + buddy
rust:
- Fix documentation for Registration constructors
- Use pin_init::zeroed() for fops initialization
- Annotate DRM helpers with __rust_helper
- Improve safety documentation for gem::Object::new()
- Update AlwaysRefCounted imports
- mm: Prevent integer overflow in page_align()
atomic:
- add drm_device pointer to drm_private_obj
- introduce gamma/degamma LUT size check
buddy:
- fix free_trees memory leak
- prevent BUG_ON
bridge:
- introduce drm_bridge_unplug/enter/exit
- add connector argument to .hpd_notify
- lots of recounting conversions
- convert rockchip inno hdmi to bridge
- lontium-lt9611uxc: switch to HDMI audio helpers
- dw-hdmi-qp: add support for HPD-less setups
- Algoltek AG6311 support
panels:
- edp: CSW MNE007QB3-1, AUO B140HAN06.4, AUO B140QAX01.H
- st75751: add SPI support
- Sitronix ST7920, Samsung LTL106HL02
- LG LH546WF1-ED01, HannStar HSD156J
- BOE NV130WUM-T08
- Innolux G150XGE-L05
- Anbernic RG-DS
dma-buf:
- improve sg_table debugging
- add tracepoints
- call clear_page instead of memset
- start to introduce cgroup memory accounting in heaps
- remove sysfs stats
dma-fence:
- add new helpers
dp:
- mst: avoid oob access with vcpi=0
hdmi:
- limit infoframes exposure to userspace
gem:
- reduce page table overhead with THP
- fix leak in drm_gem_get_unmapped_area
gpuvm:
- API sanitation for rust bindings
sched:
- introduce new helpers
panic:
- report invalid panic modes
- add kunit tests
i915/xe display:
- Expose sharpness only if num_scalers is >= 2
- Add initial Xe3P_LPD for NVL
- BMG FBC support
- Add MTL+ platforms to support dpll framework
_ fix DIMM_S DRM decoding on ICL
- Return to using AUX interrupts
- PSR/Panel replay refactoring
- use consolidation HDMI tables
- Xe3_LPD CD2X dividier changes
xe:
- vfio: add vfio_pci for intel GPU
- multi queue support
- dynamic pagemaps and multi-device SVM
- expose temp attribs in hwmon
- NO_COMPRESSION bo flag
- expose MERT OA unit
- sysfs survivability refactor
- SRIOV PF: add MERT support
- enable SR-IOV VF migration
- Enable I2C/NVM on Crescent Island
- Xe3p page reclaimation support
- introduce SRIOV scheduler groups
- add SoC remappt support in system controller
- insert compiler barriers in GuC code
- define NVL GuC firmware
- handle GT resume failure
- fix drm scheduler layering violations
- enable GSC loading and PXP for PTL
- disable GuC Power DCC strategy on PTL
- unregister drm device on probe error
i915:
- move to kernel standard fault injection
- bump recommended GuC version for DG2 and MTL
amdgpu:
- SMUIO 15.x, PSP 15.x support
- IH 6.1.1/7.1 support
- MMHUB 3.4/4.2 support
- GC 11.5.4/12.1 support
- SDMA 6.1.4/7.1/7.11.4 support
- JPEG 5.3 support
- UserQ updates
- GC 9 gfx queue reset support
- TTM memory ops parallelization
- convert legacy logging to new helpers
- DC analog fixes
amdkfd:
- GC 11.5.4/12.1 suppport
- SDMA 6.1.4/7.1 support
- per context support
- increase kfd process hash table
- Reserved SDMA rework
radeon:
- convert legacy logging to new helpers
- use devm for i2c adapters
msm:
- GPU
- Document a612/RGMU dt bindings
- UBWC 6.0 support (for A840 / Kaanapali)
- a225 support
- DPU:
- Switch to use virtual planes by default
- Fix DSI CMD panels on DPU 3.x
- Rewrite format handling to remove intermediate representation
- Fix watchdog on DPU 8.x+
- Fix TE / Vsync source setting on DPU 8.x+
- Add 3D_Mux on SC7280
- Kaanapali platform support
- Fix UBWC register programming
- Make RM reserve DSPP-enabled mixers for CRTCs with LMs
- Gamma correction support
- DP:
- Enable support for eDP 1.4+ link rate tables
- Fix MDSS1 DP indices on SA8775P, making them to work
- Fix msm_dp_ctrl_config_msa() to work with LLVM 20
- DSI:
- Document QCS8300 as compatible with SA8775P
- Kaanapali platform support
- DSI PHY:
- switch to divider_determine_rate()
- MDP5:
- Drop support for MSM8998, SDM660 and SDM630 (switch over to DPU)
- MDSS:
- Kaanapali platform support
- Fixed UBWC register programming
nova-core:
- Prepare for Turing support. This includes parsing and handling
Turing-specific firmware headers and sections as well as a Turing
Falcon HAL implementation
- Get rid of the Result<impl PinInit<T, E>> anti-pattern
- Relocate initializer-specific code into the appropriate initializer
- Use CStr::from_bytes_until_nul() to remove custom helpers
- Improve handling of unexpected firmware values
- Clean up redundant debug prints
- Replace c_str!() with native Rust C-string literals
- Update nova-core task list
nova:
- Align GEM object size to system page size
tyr:
- Use generated uAPI bindings for GpuInfo
- Replace manual sleeps with read_poll_timeout()
- Replace c_str!() with native Rust C-string literals
- Suppress warnings for unread fields
- Fix incorrect register name in print statement
nouveau:
- fix big page table support races in PTE management
- improve reclocking on tegra 186+
amdxdna:
- fix suspend race conditions
- improve handling of zero tail pointers
- fix cu_idx overwritten during command setup
- enable hardware context priority
- remove NPU2 support
- update message buffer allocation requirements
- update firmware version check
ast:
- support imported cursor buffers
- big endian fixes
etnaviv:
- add PPU flop reset support
imagination:
- add AM62P support
- introduce hw version checks
ivpu:
- implement warm boot flow
panfrost:
- add bo sync ioctl
- add GPU_PM_RT support for RZ/G3E SoC
panthor:
- add bo sync ioctl
- enable timestamp propagation
- scheduler robustness improvements
- VM termination fixes
- huge page support
rockchip:
- RK3368 HDMI Support
- get rid of atomic_check fixups
- RK3506 support
- RK3576/RK3588 improved HPD handling
rz-du:
- RZ/V2H(P) MIPI-DSI Support
v3d:
- fix DMA segment size
- convert to new logging helpers
mediatek:
- move DP training to hotplug thread
- convert logging to new helpers
- add support for HS speed DSI
- Genio 510/700/1200-EVK, Radxa NIO-12L HDMI support
atmel-hlcdc:
- switch to drmm resource
- support nomodeset
- use newer helpers
hisilicon:
- fix various DP bugs
renesas:
- fix kernel panic on reboot
exynos:
- fix vidi_connection_ioctl using wrong device
- fix vidi_connection deref user ptr
- fix concurrency regression with vidi_context
vkms:
- add configfs support for display configuration
* tag 'drm-next-2026-02-11' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/kernel: (1610 commits)
drm/xe/pm: Disable D3Cold for BMG only on specific platforms
drm/xe: Fix kerneldoc for xe_tlb_inval_job_alloc_dep
drm/xe: Fix kerneldoc for xe_gt_tlb_inval_init_early
drm/xe: Fix kerneldoc for xe_migrate_exec_queue
drm/xe/query: Fix topology query pointer advance
drm/xe/guc: Fix kernel-doc warning in GuC scheduler ABI header
drm/xe/guc: Fix CFI violation in debugfs access.
accel/amdxdna: Move RPM resume into job run function
accel/amdxdna: Fix incorrect DPM level after suspend/resume
nouveau/vmm: start tracking if the LPT PTE is valid. (v6)
nouveau/vmm: increase size of vmm pte tracker struct to u32 (v2)
nouveau/vmm: rewrite pte tracker using a struct and bitfields.
accel/amdxdna: Fix incorrect error code returned for failed chain command
accel/amdxdna: Remove hardware context status
drm/bridge: imx8qxp-pixel-combiner: Fix bailout for imx8qxp_pc_bridge_probe()
drm/panel: ilitek-ili9882t: Remove duplicate initializers in tianma_il79900a_dsc
drm/i915/display: fix the pixel normalization handling for xe3p_lpd
drm/exynos: vidi: use ctx->lock to protect struct vidi_context member variables related to memory alloc/free
drm/exynos: vidi: fix to avoid directly dereferencing user pointer
drm/exynos: vidi: use priv->vidi_dev for ctx lookup in vidi_connection_ioctl()
...
Extend struct printk_info to include the task name, pid, and CPU
number where printk messages originate. This information is captured
at vprintk_store() time and propagated through printk_message to
nbcon_write_context, making it available to nbcon console drivers.
This is useful for consoles like netconsole that want to include
execution context in their output, allowing correlation of messages
with specific tasks and CPUs regardless of where the console driver
actually runs.
The feature is controlled by CONFIG_PRINTK_EXECUTION_CTX, which is
automatically selected by CONFIG_NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC. When disabled,
the helper functions compile to no-ops with no overhead.
Suggested-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260206-nbcon-v7-1-62bda69b1b41@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
With Sparse support gone, Clang is a bit more strict and warns:
./include/linux/console.h:492:50: error: use of undeclared identifier 'console_mutex'
492 | extern void console_list_unlock(void) __releases(console_mutex);
Since it does not make sense to make console_mutex itself global, move
the annotation to printk.c. Context analysis remains disabled for
printk.c.
This is needed to enable context analysis for modules that include
<linux/console.h>.
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-34-elver@google.com
Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:
- Allow creaing nbcon console drivers with an unsafe write_atomic()
callback that can only be called by the final nbcon_atomic_flush_unsafe().
Otherwise, the driver would rely on the kthread.
It is going to be used as the-best-effort approach for an
experimental nbcon netconsole driver, see
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251121-nbcon-v1-2-503d17b2b4af@debian.org
Note that a safe .write_atomic() callback is supposed to work in NMI
context. But some networking drivers are not safe even in IRQ
context:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/oc46gdpmmlly5o44obvmoatfqo5bhpgv7pabpvb6sjuqioymcg@gjsma3ghoz35
In an ideal world, all networking drivers would be fixed first and
the atomic flush would be blocked only in NMI context. But it brings
the question how reliable networking drivers are when the system is
in a bad state. They might block flushing more reliable serial
consoles which are more suitable for serious debugging anyway.
- Allow to use the last 4 bytes of the printk ring buffer.
- Prevent queuing IRQ work and block printk kthreads when consoles are
suspended. Otherwise, they create non-necessary churn or even block
the suspend.
- Release console_lock() between each record in the kthread used for
legacy consoles on RT. It might significantly speed up the boot.
- Release nbcon context between each record in the atomic flush. It
prevents stalls of the related printk kthread after it has lost the
ownership in the middle of a record
- Add support for NBCON consoles into KDB
- Add %ptsP modifier for printing struct timespec64 and use it where
possible
- Misc code clean up
* tag 'printk-for-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux: (48 commits)
printk: Use console_is_usable on console_unblank
arch: um: kmsg_dump: Use console_is_usable
drivers: serial: kgdboc: Drop checks for CON_ENABLED and CON_BOOT
lib/vsprintf: Unify FORMAT_STATE_NUM handlers
printk: Avoid irq_work for printk_deferred() on suspend
printk: Avoid scheduling irq_work on suspend
printk: Allow printk_trigger_flush() to flush all types
tracing: Switch to use %ptSp
scsi: snic: Switch to use %ptSp
scsi: fnic: Switch to use %ptSp
s390/dasd: Switch to use %ptSp
ptp: ocp: Switch to use %ptSp
pps: Switch to use %ptSp
PCI: epf-test: Switch to use %ptSp
net: dsa: sja1105: Switch to use %ptSp
mmc: mmc_test: Switch to use %ptSp
media: av7110: Switch to use %ptSp
ipmi: Switch to use %ptSp
igb: Switch to use %ptSp
e1000e: Switch to use %ptSp
...
There may be console drivers that have not yet figured out a way
to implement safe atomic printing (->write_atomic() callback).
These drivers could choose to only implement threaded printing
(->write_thread() callback), but then it is guaranteed that _no_
output will be printed during panic. Not even attempted.
As a result, developers may be tempted to implement unsafe
->write_atomic() callbacks and/or implement some sort of custom
deferred printing trickery to try to make it work. This goes
against the principle intention of the nbcon API as well as
endangers other nbcon drivers that are doing things correctly
(safely).
As a compromise, allow nbcon drivers to implement unsafe
->write_atomic() callbacks by providing a new console flag
CON_NBCON_ATOMIC_UNSAFE. When specified, the ->write_atomic()
callback for that console will _only_ be called during the
final "hope and pray" flush attempt at the end of a panic:
nbcon_atomic_flush_unsafe().
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/b2qps3uywhmjaym4mht2wpxul4yqtuuayeoq4iv4k3zf5wdgh3@tocu6c7mj4lt
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/swdpckuwwlv3uiessmtnf2jwlx3jusw6u7fpk5iggqo4t2vdws@7rpjso4gr7qp/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251103-fix_netpoll_aa-v4-1-4cfecdf6da7c@debian.org/ [2]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027161212.334219-2-john.ogness@linutronix.de
[pmladek@suse.com: Fix build with rework/nbcon-in-kdb branch.]
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Function kdb_msg_write was calling con->write for any found console,
but it won't work on NBCON consoles. In this case we should acquire the
ownership of the console using NBCON_PRIO_EMERGENCY, since printing
kdb messages should only be interrupted by a panic.
At this point, the console is required to use the atomic callback. The
console is skipped if the write_atomic callback is not set or if the
context could not be acquired. The validation of NBCON is done by the
console_is_usable helper. The context is released right after
write_atomic finishes.
The oops_in_progress handling is only needed in the legacy consoles,
so it was moved around the con->write callback.
Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <mpdesouza@suse.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251016-nbcon-kgdboc-v6-5-866aac60a80e@suse.com
[pmladek@suse.com: Fixed compilation with !CONFIG_PRINTK.]
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
These helpers will be used when calling console->write_atomic on
KDB code in the next patch. It's basically the same implementation
as nbcon_device_try_acquire, but using NBCON_PRIO_EMERGENCY when
acquiring the context.
If the acquire succeeds, the message and message length are assigned to
nbcon_write_context so ->write_atomic can print the message.
After release try to flush the console since there may be a backlog of
messages in the ringbuffer. The kthread console printers do not get a
chance to run while kdb is active.
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <mpdesouza@suse.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251016-nbcon-kgdboc-v6-2-866aac60a80e@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
An emergency or panic context can takeover console ownership
while the current owner was printing a printk message. The
atomic printer will re-print the message that the previous
owner was printing. However, this can look confusing to the
user and may even seem as though a message was lost.
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[3430014.181123] usb 1-2: Product: USB Audio
Add a new field @nbcon_prev_seq to struct console to track
the sequence number to print that was assigned to the previous
console owner. If this matches the sequence number to print
that the current owner is assigned, then a takeover must have
occurred. In this case, print an additional message to inform
the user that the previous message is being printed again.
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** replaying previous printk message **
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Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240904120536.115780-12-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Provide the main implementation for running a printer kthread
per nbcon console that is takeover/handover aware. This
includes:
- new mandatory write_thread() callback
- kthread creation
- kthread main printing loop
- kthread wakeup mechanism
- kthread shutdown
kthread creation is a bit tricky because consoles may register
before kthreads can be created. In such cases, registration
will succeed, even though no kthread exists. Once kthreads can
be created, an early_initcall will set @printk_kthreads_ready.
If there are no registered boot consoles, the early_initcall
creates the kthreads for all registered nbcon consoles. If
kthread creation fails, the related console is unregistered.
If there are registered boot consoles when
@printk_kthreads_ready is set, no kthreads are created until
the final boot console unregisters.
Once kthread creation finally occurs, @printk_kthreads_running
is set so that the system knows kthreads are available for all
registered nbcon consoles.
If @printk_kthreads_running is already set when the console
is registering, the kthread is created during registration. If
kthread creation fails, the registration will fail.
Until @printk_kthreads_running is set, console printing occurs
directly via the console_lock.
kthread shutdown on system shutdown/reboot is necessary to
ensure the printer kthreads finish their printing so that the
system can cleanly transition back to direct printing via the
console_lock in order to reliably push out the final
shutdown/reboot messages. @printk_kthreads_running is cleared
before shutting down the individual kthreads.
The kthread uses a new mandatory write_thread() callback that
is called with both device_lock() and the console context
acquired.
The console ownership handling is necessary for synchronization
against write_atomic() which is synchronized only via the
console context ownership.
The device_lock() serializes acquiring the console context with
NBCON_PRIO_NORMAL. It is needed in case the device_lock() does
not disable preemption. It prevents the following race:
CPU0 CPU1
[ task A ]
nbcon_context_try_acquire()
# success with NORMAL prio
# .unsafe == false; // safe for takeover
[ schedule: task A -> B ]
WARN_ON()
nbcon_atomic_flush_pending()
nbcon_context_try_acquire()
# success with EMERGENCY prio
# flushing
nbcon_context_release()
# HERE: con->nbcon_state is free
# to take by anyone !!!
nbcon_context_try_acquire()
# success with NORMAL prio [ task B ]
[ schedule: task B -> A ]
nbcon_enter_unsafe()
nbcon_context_can_proceed()
BUG: nbcon_context_can_proceed() returns "true" because
the console is owned by a context on CPU0 with
NBCON_PRIO_NORMAL.
But it should return "false". The console is owned
by a context from task B and we do the check
in a context from task A.
Note that with these changes, the printer kthreads do not yet
take over full responsibility for nbcon printing during normal
operation. These changes only focus on the lifecycle of the
kthreads.
Co-developed-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner (Intel) <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240904120536.115780-7-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Since ownership can be lost at any time due to handover or
takeover, a printing context _must_ be prepared to back out
immediately and carefully. However, there are scenarios where
the printing context must reacquire ownership in order to
finalize or revert hardware changes.
One such example is when interrupts are disabled during
printing. No other context will automagically re-enable the
interrupts. For this case, the disabling context _must_
reacquire nbcon ownership so that it can re-enable the
interrupts.
Provide nbcon_reacquire_nobuf() for exactly this purpose. It
allows a printing context to reacquire ownership using the same
priority as its previous ownership.
Note that after a successful reacquire the printing context
will have no output buffer because that has been lost. This
function cannot be used to resume printing.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240904120536.115780-2-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
In emergency situations (something has gone wrong but the
system continues to operate), usually important information
(such as a backtrace) is generated via printk(). This
information should be pushed out to the consoles ASAP.
Add per-CPU emergency nesting tracking because an emergency
can arise while in an emergency situation.
Add functions to mark the beginning and end of emergency
sections where the urgent messages are generated.
Perform direct console flushing at the emergency priority if
the current CPU is in an emergency state and it is safe to do
so.
Note that the emergency state is not system-wide. While one CPU
is in an emergency state, another CPU may attempt to print
console messages at normal priority.
Also note that printk() already attempts to flush consoles in
the caller context for normal priority. However, follow-up
changes will introduce printing kthreads, in which case the
normal priority printk() calls will offload to the kthreads.
Co-developed-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner (Intel) <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-32-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Provide functions nbcon_device_try_acquire() and
nbcon_device_release() which will try to acquire the nbcon
console ownership with NBCON_PRIO_NORMAL and mark it unsafe for
handover/takeover.
These functions are to be used together with the device-specific
locking when performing non-printing activities on the console
device. They will allow synchronization against the
atomic_write() callback which will be serialized, for higher
priority contexts, only by acquiring the console context
ownership.
Pitfalls:
The API requires to be called in a context with migration
disabled because it uses per-CPU variables internally.
The context is set unsafe for a takeover all the time. It
guarantees full serialization against any atomic_write() caller
except for the final flush in panic() which might try an unsafe
takeover.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-14-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
It was not clear when exactly console_srcu_read_flags() must be
used vs. directly reading @console->flags.
Refactor and clarify that console_srcu_read_flags() is only
needed if the console is registered or the caller is in a
context where the registration status of the console may change
(due to another context).
The function requires the caller holds @console_srcu, which will
ensure that the caller sees an appropriate @flags value for the
registered console and that exit/cleanup routines will not run
if the console is in the process of unregistration.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-13-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Console drivers typically must deal with access to the hardware
via user input/output (such as an interactive login shell) and
output of kernel messages via printk() calls. To provide the
necessary synchronization, usually some driver-specific locking
mechanism is used (for example, the port spinlock for uart
serial consoles).
Until now, usage of this driver-specific locking has been hidden
from the printk-subsystem and implemented within the various
console callbacks. However, nbcon consoles would need to use it
even in the generic code.
Add device_lock() and device_unlock() callback which will need
to get implemented by nbcon consoles.
The callbacks will use whatever synchronization mechanism the
driver is using for itself. The minimum requirement is to
prevent CPU migration. It would allow a context friendly
acquiring of nbcon console ownership in non-emergency and
non-panic context.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-9-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
The return value of write_atomic() does not provide any useful
information. On the contrary, it makes things more complicated
for the caller to appropriately deal with the information.
Change write_atomic() to not have a return value. If the
message did not get printed due to loss of ownership, the
caller will notice this on its own. If ownership was not lost,
it will be assumed that the driver successfully printed the
message and the sequence number for that console will be
incremented.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-7-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
selection.c and vt.c still uses tabs in the kernel-doc. This misrenders the
functions in the output -- sphinx misinterprets the description. So
remove these tabs, incl. those around dashes.
'enum' keyword is needed before enum names. Fix that.
Superfluous \n after the comments are also removed. They are not
completely faulty, but this unifies all the kernel-doc in the files.
Finally fix up the cross references.
Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> # parisc STI console
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240122110401.7289-47-jirislaby@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
It is pretty unfortunate to set vc_data::vc_resize_user in two callers
of vc_do_resize(). vc_resize_user is immediately reset there (while
remembering it). So instead of this back and forth, pass 'from_user' as
a parameter.
Notes on 'int user':
* The name changes from 'user' to 'from_user' on some places to be
consistent.
* The type is bool now as 'int user' might evoke user's uid or whatever.
Provided vc_resize() is called on many places and they need not to care
about this parameter, its prototype is kept unchanged. Instead, it is
now an inline calling a new __vc_resize() which implements the above.
This patch makes the situation much more obvious.
Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> # parisc STI console
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240122110401.7289-8-jirislaby@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull tty and serial updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big set of tty/serial driver changes for 6.7-rc1. Included
in here are:
- console/vgacon cleanups and removals from Arnd
- tty core and n_tty cleanups from Jiri
- lots of 8250 driver updates and cleanups
- sc16is7xx serial driver updates
- dt binding updates
- first set of port lock wrapers from Thomas for the printk fixes
coming in future releases
- other small serial and tty core cleanups and updates
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'tty-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (193 commits)
serdev: Replace custom code with device_match_acpi_handle()
serdev: Simplify devm_serdev_device_open() function
serdev: Make use of device_set_node()
tty: n_gsm: add copyright Siemens Mobility GmbH
tty: n_gsm: fix race condition in status line change on dead connections
serial: core: Fix runtime PM handling for pending tx
vgacon: fix mips/sibyte build regression
dt-bindings: serial: drop unsupported samsung bindings
tty: serial: samsung: drop earlycon support for unsupported platforms
tty: 8250: Add note for PX-835
tty: 8250: Fix IS-200 PCI ID comment
tty: 8250: Add Brainboxes Oxford Semiconductor-based quirks
tty: 8250: Add support for Intashield IX cards
tty: 8250: Add support for additional Brainboxes PX cards
tty: 8250: Fix up PX-803/PX-857
tty: 8250: Fix port count of PX-257
tty: 8250: Add support for Intashield IS-100
tty: 8250: Add support for Brainboxes UP cards
tty: 8250: Add support for additional Brainboxes UC cards
tty: 8250: Remove UC-257 and UC-431
...
While adding a preferred console handling for serial_core for serial port
hardware based device addressing, Jiri suggested we constify name for
add_preferred_console(). The name gets copied anyways. This allows serial
core to add a preferred console using serial drv->dev_name without copying
it.
Note that constifying options causes changes all over the place because of
struct console for match().
Suggested-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231012064300.50221-2-tony@atomide.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Let's check for valid console index values for preferred console to avoid
bogus console index numbers from kernel command line.
Let's also return an error for negative index numbers for the preferred
console. Unlike for device drivers, a negative index is not valid for the
preferred console.
Let's also constify idx while at it.
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231012064300.50221-1-tony@atomide.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
