Currently there is a quite a pile of code sitting in arch/x86/kernel/apic/hw_nmi.c to support safe all-cpu backtracing from NMI. The code is inaccessible to backtrace implementations for other architectures, which is a shame because they would probably like to be safe too.
Copy this code into printk, reworking it a little as we do so to make it easier to exploit as library code.
We'll port the x86 NMI backtrace logic to it in a later patch.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson daniel.thompson@linaro.org Cc: Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org --- include/linux/printk.h | 20 ++++++ init/Kconfig | 3 + kernel/printk/Makefile | 1 + kernel/printk/nmi_backtrace.c | 147 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 171 insertions(+) create mode 100644 kernel/printk/nmi_backtrace.c
diff --git a/include/linux/printk.h b/include/linux/printk.h index baa3f97d8ce8..44bb85ad1f62 100644 --- a/include/linux/printk.h +++ b/include/linux/printk.h @@ -228,6 +228,26 @@ static inline void show_regs_print_info(const char *log_lvl) } #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK_NMI_BACKTRACE +/* + * printk_nmi_backtrace_prepare/complete are called to prepare the + * system for some or all cores to issue trace from NMI. + * printk_nmi_backtrace_complete will print buffered output and cannot + * (safely) be called from NMI. + */ +extern int printk_nmi_backtrace_prepare(void); +extern void printk_nmi_backtrace_complete(void); + +/* + * printk_nmi_backtrace_this_cpu_begin/end are used divert/restore printk + * on this cpu. The result is the output of printk() (by this CPU) will be + * stored in temporary buffers for later printing by + * printk_nmi_backtrace_complete. + */ +extern void printk_nmi_backtrace_this_cpu_begin(void); +extern void printk_nmi_backtrace_this_cpu_end(void); +#endif + extern asmlinkage void dump_stack(void) __cold;
#ifndef pr_fmt diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index f5dbc6d4261b..0107e9b4d2cf 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -1421,6 +1421,9 @@ config PRINTK very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is strongly discouraged.
+config PRINTK_NMI_BACKTRACE + bool + config BUG bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT default y diff --git a/kernel/printk/Makefile b/kernel/printk/Makefile index 85405bdcf2b3..1849b001384a 100644 --- a/kernel/printk/Makefile +++ b/kernel/printk/Makefile @@ -1,2 +1,3 @@ obj-y = printk.o +obj-$(CONFIG_PRINTK_NMI_BACKTRACE) += nmi_backtrace.o obj-$(CONFIG_A11Y_BRAILLE_CONSOLE) += braille.o diff --git a/kernel/printk/nmi_backtrace.c b/kernel/printk/nmi_backtrace.c new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f24761262756 --- /dev/null +++ b/kernel/printk/nmi_backtrace.c @@ -0,0 +1,147 @@ +#include <linux/kernel.h> +#include <linux/seq_buf.h> + +#define NMI_BUF_SIZE 4096 + +struct nmi_seq_buf { + unsigned char buffer[NMI_BUF_SIZE]; + struct seq_buf seq; +}; + +/* Safe printing in NMI context */ +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct nmi_seq_buf, nmi_print_seq); + +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(printk_func_t, nmi_print_saved_print_func); + +/* "in progress" flag of NMI printing */ +static unsigned long nmi_print_flag; + +static int __init printk_nmi_backtrace_init(void) +{ + struct nmi_seq_buf *s; + int cpu; + + for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) { + s = &per_cpu(nmi_print_seq, cpu); + seq_buf_init(&s->seq, s->buffer, NMI_BUF_SIZE); + } + + return 0; +} +pure_initcall(printk_nmi_backtrace_init); + +/* + * It is not safe to call printk() directly from NMI handlers. + * It may be fine if the NMI detected a lock up and we have no choice + * but to do so, but doing a NMI on all other CPUs to get a back trace + * can be done with a sysrq-l. We don't want that to lock up, which + * can happen if the NMI interrupts a printk in progress. + * + * Instead, we redirect the vprintk() to this nmi_vprintk() that writes + * the content into a per cpu seq_buf buffer. Then when the NMIs are + * all done, we can safely dump the contents of the seq_buf to a printk() + * from a non NMI context. + * + * This is not a generic printk() implementation and must be used with + * great care. In particular there is a static limit on the quantity of + * data that may be emitted during NMI, only one client can be active at + * one time (arbitrated by the return value of printk_nmi_begin() and + * it is required that something at task or interrupt context be scheduled + * to issue the output. + */ +static int nmi_vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args) +{ + struct nmi_seq_buf *s = this_cpu_ptr(&nmi_print_seq); + unsigned int len = seq_buf_used(&s->seq); + + seq_buf_vprintf(&s->seq, fmt, args); + return seq_buf_used(&s->seq) - len; +} + +/* + * Reserve the NMI printk mechanism. Return an error if some other component + * is already using it. + */ +int printk_nmi_backtrace_prepare(void) +{ + if (test_and_set_bit(0, &nmi_print_flag)) { + /* + * If something is already using the NMI print facility we + * can't allow a second one... + */ + return -EBUSY; + } + + return 0; +} + +static void print_seq_line(struct nmi_seq_buf *s, int start, int end) +{ + const char *buf = s->buffer + start; + + printk("%.*s", (end - start) + 1, buf); +} + +void printk_nmi_backtrace_complete(void) +{ + struct nmi_seq_buf *s; + int len, cpu, i, last_i; + + /* + * Now that all the NMIs have triggered, we can dump out their + * back traces safely to the console. + */ + for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) { + s = &per_cpu(nmi_print_seq, cpu); + last_i = 0; + + len = seq_buf_used(&s->seq); + if (!len) + continue; + + /* Print line by line. */ + for (i = 0; i < len; i++) { + if (s->buffer[i] == '\n') { + print_seq_line(s, last_i, i); + last_i = i + 1; + } + } + /* Check if there was a partial line. */ + if (last_i < len) { + print_seq_line(s, last_i, len - 1); + pr_cont("\n"); + } + + /* Wipe out the buffer ready for the next time around. */ + seq_buf_clear(&s->seq); + } + + clear_bit(0, &nmi_print_flag); +} + +void printk_nmi_backtrace_this_cpu_begin(void) +{ + /* + * Detect double-begins and report them. This code is unsafe (because + * it will print from NMI) but things are pretty badly damaged if the + * NMI re-enters and is somehow granted permission to use NMI printk, + * so how much worse can it get? Also since this code interferes with + * the operation of printk it is unlikely that any consequential + * failures will be able to log anything making this our last + * opportunity to tell anyone that something is wrong. + */ + if (this_cpu_read(nmi_print_saved_print_func)) { + this_cpu_write(printk_func, + this_cpu_read(nmi_print_saved_print_func)); + BUG(); + } + + this_cpu_write(nmi_print_saved_print_func, this_cpu_read(printk_func)); + this_cpu_write(printk_func, nmi_vprintk); +} + +void printk_nmi_backtrace_this_cpu_end(void) +{ + this_cpu_write(printk_func, this_cpu_read(nmi_print_saved_print_func)); + this_cpu_write(nmi_print_saved_print_func, NULL); +}