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John Ogness eacb04ff3c printk: Do not take console lock for console_flush_on_panic()
Currently console_flush_on_panic() will attempt to acquire the
console lock when flushing the buffer on panic. If it fails to
acquire the lock, it continues anyway because this is the last
chance to get any pending records printed.

The reason why the console lock was attempted at all was to
prevent any other CPUs from acquiring the console lock for
printing while the panic CPU was printing. But as of the
previous commit, non-panic CPUs will no longer attempt to
acquire the console lock in a panic situation. Therefore it is
no longer strictly necessary for a panic CPU to acquire the
console lock.

Avoiding taking the console lock when flushing in panic has
the additional benefit of avoiding possible deadlocks due to
semaphore usage in NMI context (semaphores are not NMI-safe)
and avoiding possible deadlocks if another CPU accesses the
semaphore and is stopped while holding one of the semaphore's
internal spinlocks.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230717194607.145135-5-john.ogness@linutronix.de
History 2023-07-20 13:06:22 +02:00
arch printk changes for 6.4 2023-04-25 12:46:48 -07:00
block iter-ubuf.2-2023-04-21 2023-04-24 10:29:28 -07:00
certs KEYS: Add missing function documentation 2023-04-24 16:15:52 +03:00
crypto integrity: machine keyring CA configuration 2023-04-24 16:15:53 +03:00
Documentation arm64 updates for 6.4 2023-04-25 12:39:01 -07:00
drivers arm64 updates for 6.4 2023-04-25 12:39:01 -07:00
fs asm-generic updates for 6.4 2023-04-25 12:22:11 -07:00
include arm64 updates for 6.4 2023-04-25 12:39:01 -07:00
init printk changes for 6.4 2023-04-25 12:46:48 -07:00
io_uring iter-ubuf.2-2023-04-21 2023-04-24 10:29:28 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.namespace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2023-02-24 19:20:07 -08:00
kernel printk: Do not take console lock for console_flush_on_panic() 2023-07-20 13:06:22 +02:00
lib printk changes for 6.4 2023-04-25 12:46:48 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm arm64 updates for 6.4 2023-04-25 12:39:01 -07:00
net asm-generic updates for 6.4 2023-04-25 12:22:11 -07:00
rust rust: allow to use INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO 2023-04-19 19:34:43 +02:00
samples ftrace: Rename _ftrace_direct_multi APIs to _ftrace_direct APIs 2023-03-21 13:43:32 -04:00
scripts asm-generic updates for 6.4 2023-04-25 12:22:11 -07:00
security Commit volume in documentation is relatively low this time, but there is 2023-04-24 12:35:49 -07:00
sound iter-ubuf.2-2023-04-21 2023-04-24 10:29:28 -07:00
tools asm-generic updates for 6.4 2023-04-25 12:22:11 -07:00
usr initramfs: Check negative timestamp to prevent broken cpio archive 2023-04-16 17:37:01 +09:00
virt KVM: PPC: Make KVM_CAP_IRQFD_RESAMPLE platform dependent 2023-03-31 11:19:05 -04:00
.clang-format cpumask: re-introduce constant-sized cpumask optimizations 2023-03-05 14:30:34 -08:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for *.dtso files 2023-02-26 15:28:23 +09:00
.gitignore linux-kselftest-kunit-6.4-rc1 2023-04-24 12:31:32 -07:00
.mailmap Networking fixes for 6.3-rc8, including fixes from netfilter and bpf 2023-04-20 11:03:51 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS qnx4: credit contributors in CREDITS 2023-03-14 12:56:30 -06:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS ARM: SoC devicetree changes for 6.4 2023-04-25 12:11:54 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.3 2023-04-23 12:02:52 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

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.