commit 85e3e7fbbb720b9897fba9a99659e31cbd1c082e upstream.
[This patch implements subset of original commit 85e3e7fbbb72 ("printk: remove NMI tracking") where commit 1007843a9190 ("mm/page_alloc: fix potential deadlock on zonelist_update_seq seqlock") depends on, for commit 3d36424b3b58 ("mm/page_alloc: fix race condition between build_all_zonelists and page allocation") was backported to stable.]
All NMI contexts are handled the same as the safe context: store the message and defer printing. There is no need to have special NMI context tracking for this. Using in_nmi() is enough.
There are several parts of the kernel that are manually calling into the printk NMI context tracking in order to cause general printk deferred printing:
arch/arm/kernel/smp.c arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c kernel/trace/trace.c
For arm/kernel/smp.c and powerpc/kexec/crash.c, provide a new function pair printk_deferred_enter/exit that explicitly achieves the same objective.
For ftrace, remove the printk context manipulation completely. It was added in commit 03fc7f9c99c1 ("printk/nmi: Prevent deadlock when accessing the main log buffer in NMI"). The purpose was to enforce storing messages directly into the ring buffer even in NMI context. It really should have only modified the behavior in NMI context. There is no need for a special behavior any longer. All messages are always stored directly now. The console deferring is handled transparently in vprintk().
Signed-off-by: John Ogness john.ogness@linutronix.de [pmladek@suse.com: Remove special handling in ftrace.c completely. Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek pmladek@suse.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210715193359.25946-5-john.ogness@linutronix.de [penguin-kernel: Copy only printk_deferred_{enter,safe}() definition ] Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp --- include/linux/printk.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/printk.h b/include/linux/printk.h index 6dd867e39365..f4d7e643f010 100644 --- a/include/linux/printk.h +++ b/include/linux/printk.h @@ -525,4 +525,23 @@ static inline void print_hex_dump_debug(const char *prefix_str, int prefix_type, } #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK +extern void __printk_safe_enter(void); +extern void __printk_safe_exit(void); +/* + * The printk_deferred_enter/exit macros are available only as a hack for + * some code paths that need to defer all printk console printing. Interrupts + * must be disabled for the deferred duration. + */ +#define printk_deferred_enter __printk_safe_enter +#define printk_deferred_exit __printk_safe_exit +#else +static inline void printk_deferred_enter(void) +{ +} +static inline void printk_deferred_exit(void) +{ +} +#endif + #endif