printk: Use the main logbuf in NMI when logbuf_lock is available

The commit 42a0bb3f71383b457a7d ("printk/nmi: generic solution for safe
printk in NMI") caused that printk stores messages into a temporary
buffer in NMI context.

The buffer is per-CPU and therefore the size is rather limited.
It works quite well for NMI backtraces. But there are longer logs
that might get printed in NMI context, for example, lockdep
warnings, ftrace_dump_on_oops.

The temporary buffer is used to avoid deadlocks caused by
logbuf_lock. Also it is needed to avoid races with the other
temporary buffer that is used when PRINTK_SAFE_CONTEXT is entered.
But the main buffer can be used in NMI if the lock is available
and we did not interrupt PRINTK_SAFE_CONTEXT.

The lock is checked using raw_spin_is_locked(). It might cause
false negatives when the lock is taken on another CPU and
this CPU is in the safe context from other reasons. Note that
the safe context is used also to get console semaphore or when
calling console drivers. For this reason, we do the check in
printk_nmi_enter(). It makes the handling consistent for
the entire NMI handler and avoids reshuffling of the messages.

The patch also defines special printk context that allows
to use printk_deferred() in NMI. Note that we could not flush
the messages to the consoles because console drivers might use
many other internal locks.

The newly created vprintk_deferred() disables the preemption
only around the irq work handling. It is needed there to keep
the consistency between the two per-CPU variables. But there
is no reason to disable preemption around vprintk_emit().

Finally, the patch puts back explicit serialization of the NMI
backtraces from different CPUs. It was removed by the
commit a9edc88093287183ac934b ("x86/nmi: Perform a safe
NMI stack trace on all CPUs"). It was not needed because
the flushing of the temporary per-CPU buffers was serialized.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1493912763-24873-1-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King <rack+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>

3 files changed, 42 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/printk/internal.h b/kernel/printk/internal.h
index 1db044f808b7..2a7d04049af4 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/internal.h
+++ b/kernel/printk/internal.h
@@ -18,12 +18,14 @@
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK
 
-#define PRINTK_SAFE_CONTEXT_MASK	0x7fffffff
-#define PRINTK_NMI_CONTEXT_MASK	0x80000000
+#define PRINTK_SAFE_CONTEXT_MASK	 0x3fffffff
+#define PRINTK_NMI_DEFERRED_CONTEXT_MASK 0x40000000
+#define PRINTK_NMI_CONTEXT_MASK		 0x80000000
 
 extern raw_spinlock_t logbuf_lock;
 
 __printf(1, 0) int vprintk_default(const char *fmt, va_list args);
+__printf(1, 0) int vprintk_deferred(const char *fmt, va_list args);
 __printf(1, 0) int vprintk_func(const char *fmt, va_list args);
 void __printk_safe_enter(void);
 void __printk_safe_exit(void);
diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index 779479ac9f57..e5278e7d1922 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -2722,16 +2722,13 @@ void wake_up_klogd(void)
 	preempt_enable();
 }
 
-int printk_deferred(const char *fmt, ...)
+int vprintk_deferred(const char *fmt, va_list args)
 {
-	va_list args;
 	int r;
 
-	preempt_disable();
-	va_start(args, fmt);
 	r = vprintk_emit(0, LOGLEVEL_SCHED, NULL, 0, fmt, args);
-	va_end(args);
 
+	preempt_disable();
 	__this_cpu_or(printk_pending, PRINTK_PENDING_OUTPUT);
 	irq_work_queue(this_cpu_ptr(&wake_up_klogd_work));
 	preempt_enable();
@@ -2739,6 +2736,18 @@ int printk_deferred(const char *fmt, ...)
 	return r;
 }
 
+int printk_deferred(const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+	va_list args;
+	int r;
+
+	va_start(args, fmt);
+	r = vprintk_deferred(fmt, args);
+	va_end(args);
+
+	return r;
+}
+
 /*
  * printk rate limiting, lifted from the networking subsystem.
  *
diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk_safe.c b/kernel/printk/printk_safe.c
index 033e50a7d706..03a42a539b20 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk_safe.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk_safe.c
@@ -308,12 +308,24 @@ static int vprintk_nmi(const char *fmt, va_list args)
 
 void printk_nmi_enter(void)
 {
-	this_cpu_or(printk_context, PRINTK_NMI_CONTEXT_MASK);
+	/*
+	 * The size of the extra per-CPU buffer is limited. Use it only when
+	 * the main one is locked. If this CPU is not in the safe context,
+	 * the lock must be taken on another CPU and we could wait for it.
+	 */
+	if ((this_cpu_read(printk_context) & PRINTK_SAFE_CONTEXT_MASK) &&
+	    raw_spin_is_locked(&logbuf_lock)) {
+		this_cpu_or(printk_context, PRINTK_NMI_CONTEXT_MASK);
+	} else {
+		this_cpu_or(printk_context, PRINTK_NMI_DEFERRED_CONTEXT_MASK);
+	}
 }
 
 void printk_nmi_exit(void)
 {
-	this_cpu_and(printk_context, ~PRINTK_NMI_CONTEXT_MASK);
+	this_cpu_and(printk_context,
+		     ~(PRINTK_NMI_CONTEXT_MASK |
+		       PRINTK_NMI_DEFERRED_CONTEXT_MASK));
 }
 
 #else
@@ -351,12 +363,22 @@ void __printk_safe_exit(void)
 
 __printf(1, 0) int vprintk_func(const char *fmt, va_list args)
 {
+	/* Use extra buffer in NMI when logbuf_lock is taken or in safe mode. */
 	if (this_cpu_read(printk_context) & PRINTK_NMI_CONTEXT_MASK)
 		return vprintk_nmi(fmt, args);
 
+	/* Use extra buffer to prevent a recursion deadlock in safe mode. */
 	if (this_cpu_read(printk_context) & PRINTK_SAFE_CONTEXT_MASK)
 		return vprintk_safe(fmt, args);
 
+	/*
+	 * Use the main logbuf when logbuf_lock is available in NMI.
+	 * But avoid calling console drivers that might have their own locks.
+	 */
+	if (this_cpu_read(printk_context) & PRINTK_NMI_DEFERRED_CONTEXT_MASK)
+		return vprintk_deferred(fmt, args);
+
+	/* No obstacles. */
 	return vprintk_default(fmt, args);
 }