Add a new option to the netconsole subsystem to automatically populate the CPU number that is sending the log message in the userdata field.
When enabled, this feature will append a "cpu=<cpu_number>" entry to the userdata string, allowing the receiver to demultiplex and differentiate between messages sent from different CPUs. This is particularly useful when dealing with parallel log output that gets intermixed on the receiver side.
The new option is added as a flag in the enum userdata_auto and can be controlled through the populate_cpu_nr sysfs attribute in the netconsole target's configfs hierarchy. The main benefits of this change are:
* Improved log message demultiplexing for parallel output. * Better visibility into which CPU a particular log message originated from.
Create userdata_auto as an bitwise enum, since I have immediate plans to expand it.
Since the CPU id doesn't need to be precise, do not disable preemption when getting the CPU id.
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org --- drivers/net/netconsole.c | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 61 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c index 965712d65a014c60f91bf35e48f1b112f66b8439..861e8988b8db4f29ae3de02222c9131059694aba 100644 --- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c +++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c @@ -90,6 +90,14 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(target_cleanup_list_lock); */ static struct console netconsole_ext;
+/* Fields requiring kernel auto-population in userdata. + * The fields are designed as bitwise flags, allowing multiple fields to be set + */ +enum userdata_auto { + /* Populate CPU number that is sending the message */ + AUTO_CPU_NR = BIT(0), +}; + /** * struct netconsole_target - Represents a configured netconsole target. * @list: Links this target into the target_list. @@ -97,6 +105,7 @@ static struct console netconsole_ext; * @userdata_group: Links to the userdata configfs hierarchy * @userdata_complete: Cached, formatted string of append * @userdata_length: String length of userdata_complete + * @userdata_auto: Kernel auto-populated bitwise fields in userdata. * @enabled: On / off knob to enable / disable target. * Visible from userspace (read-write). * We maintain a strict 1:1 correspondence between this and @@ -123,6 +132,7 @@ struct netconsole_target { struct config_group userdata_group; char userdata_complete[MAX_USERDATA_ENTRY_LENGTH * MAX_USERDATA_ITEMS]; size_t userdata_length; + enum userdata_auto userdata_auto; #endif bool enabled; bool extended; @@ -371,6 +381,18 @@ static ssize_t remote_mac_show(struct config_item *item, char *buf) return sysfs_emit(buf, "%pM\n", to_target(item)->np.remote_mac); }
+static ssize_t populate_cpu_nr_show(struct config_item *item, char *buf) +{ + struct netconsole_target *nt = to_target(item->ci_parent); + bool cpu_nr_enabled; + + mutex_lock(&dynamic_netconsole_mutex); + cpu_nr_enabled = nt->userdata_auto & AUTO_CPU_NR; + mutex_unlock(&dynamic_netconsole_mutex); + + return sysfs_emit(buf, "%d\n", cpu_nr_enabled); +} + /* * This one is special -- targets created through the configfs interface * are not enabled (and the corresponding netpoll activated) by default. @@ -726,6 +748,15 @@ static void update_userdata(struct netconsole_target *nt) MAX_USERDATA_ENTRY_LENGTH, " %s=%s\n", item->ci_name, udm_item->value); } + + /* Check if CPU NR should be populated, and append it to the user + * dictionary. + */ + if (child_count < MAX_USERDATA_ITEMS && nt->userdata_auto & AUTO_CPU_NR) + scnprintf(&nt->userdata_complete[complete_idx], + MAX_USERDATA_ENTRY_LENGTH, " cpu=%u\n", + raw_smp_processor_id()); + nt->userdata_length = strnlen(nt->userdata_complete, sizeof(nt->userdata_complete)); } @@ -757,7 +788,36 @@ static ssize_t userdatum_value_store(struct config_item *item, const char *buf, return ret; }
+static ssize_t populate_cpu_nr_store(struct config_item *item, const char *buf, + size_t count) +{ + struct netconsole_target *nt = to_target(item->ci_parent); + bool cpu_nr_enabled; + ssize_t ret; + + if (!nt) + return -EINVAL; + + mutex_lock(&dynamic_netconsole_mutex); + ret = kstrtobool(buf, &cpu_nr_enabled); + if (ret) + goto out_unlock; + + if (cpu_nr_enabled) + nt->userdata_auto |= AUTO_CPU_NR; + else + nt->userdata_auto &= ~AUTO_CPU_NR; + + update_userdata(nt); + + ret = strnlen(buf, count); +out_unlock: + mutex_unlock(&dynamic_netconsole_mutex); + return ret; +} + CONFIGFS_ATTR(userdatum_, value); +CONFIGFS_ATTR(, populate_cpu_nr);
static struct configfs_attribute *userdatum_attrs[] = { &userdatum_attr_value, @@ -819,6 +879,7 @@ static void userdatum_drop(struct config_group *group, struct config_item *item) }
static struct configfs_attribute *userdata_attrs[] = { + &attr_populate_cpu_nr, NULL, };