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Paul E. McKenney 8194c4bd29 rcu: Restrict access to RCU CPU stall notifiers 
[ Upstream commit 4e58aaeebb ]

Although the RCU CPU stall notifiers can be useful for dumping state when
tracking down delicate forward-progress bugs where NUMA effects cause
cache lines to be delivered to a given CPU regularly, but always in a
state that prevents that CPU from making forward progress.  These bugs can
be detected by the RCU CPU stall-warning mechanism, but in some cases,
the stall-warnings printk()s disrupt the forward-progress bug before
any useful state can be obtained.

Unfortunately, the notifier mechanism added by commit 5b404fdaba ("rcu:
Add RCU CPU stall notifier") can make matters worse if used at all
carelessly. For example, if the stall warning was caused by a lock not
being released, then any attempt to acquire that lock in the notifier
will hang. This will prevent not only the notifier from producing any
useful output, but it will also prevent the stall-warning message from
ever appearing.

This commit therefore hides this new RCU CPU stall notifier
mechanism under a new RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig option that
depends on both DEBUG_KERNEL and RCU_EXPERT.  In addition, the
rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers=1 kernel boot parameter must also
be specified.  The RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig option's help text
contains a warning and explains the dangers of careless use, recommending
lockless notifier code.  In addition, a WARN() is triggered each time
that an attempt is made to register a stall-warning notifier in kernels
built with CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER=y.

This combination of measures will keep use of this mechanism confined to
debug kernels and away from routine deployments.

[ paulmck: Apply Dan Carpenter feedback. ]

Fixes: 5b404fdaba ("rcu: Add RCU CPU stall notifier")
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.iitr10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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arch ARM: 9330/1: davinci: also select PINCTRL 2024-01-25 15:45:18 -08:00
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certs This update includes the following changes: 2023-11-02 16:15:30 -10:00
crypto crypto: scomp - fix req->dst buffer overflow 2024-01-25 15:44:43 -08:00
Documentation rcu: Restrict access to RCU CPU stall notifiers 2024-01-25 15:45:18 -08:00
drivers mfd: syscon: Fix null pointer dereference in of_syscon_register() 2024-01-25 15:45:18 -08:00
fs ceph: select FS_ENCRYPTION_ALGS if FS_ENCRYPTION 2024-01-25 15:45:13 -08:00
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ipc Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are 2023-11-02 19:38:47 -10:00
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lib test_bpf: Rename second ALU64_SMOD_X to ALU64_SMOD_K 2024-01-25 15:44:50 -08:00
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rust rust: Ignore preserve-most functions 2024-01-25 15:45:09 -08:00
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Makefile Linux 6.7.1 2024-01-20 11:53:02 +01:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.