watchdog/softlockup: use printk_cpu_sync_get_irqsave() to serialize reporting

Instead of introducing a spinlock, use printk_cpu_sync_get_irqsave() and
printk_cpu_sync_put_irqrestore() to serialize softlockup reporting.  Alone
this doesn't have any real advantage over the spinlock, but this will
allow us to use the same function in a future change to also serialize
hardlockup crawls.

NOTE: for the most part this serialization is important because we often
end up in the show_regs() path and that has no built-in serialization if
there are multiple callers at once.  However, even in the case where we
end up in the dump_stack() path this still has some advantages because the
stack will be guaranteed to be together in the logs with the lockup
message with no interleaving.

NOTE: the fact that printk_cpu_sync_get_irqsave() is allowed to be called
multiple times on the same CPU is important here.  Specifically we hold
the "lock" while calling dump_stack() which also gets the same "lock". 
This is explicitly documented to be OK and means we don't need to
introduce a variant of dump_stack() that doesn't grab the lock.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231220131534.2.Ia5906525d440d8e8383cde31b7c61c2aadc8f907@changeid
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Li Zhe <lizhe.67@bytedance.com>
Cc: Lecopzer Chen <lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index b4fd2f12137f..526041a1100a 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart watchdog_timer_fn(struct hrtimer *hrtimer)
 	struct pt_regs *regs = get_irq_regs();
 	int duration;
 	int softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace = sysctl_softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace;
-	static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(watchdog_output_lock);
+	unsigned long flags;
 
 	if (!watchdog_enabled)
 		return HRTIMER_NORESTART;
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart watchdog_timer_fn(struct hrtimer *hrtimer)
 		/* Start period for the next softlockup warning. */
 		update_report_ts();
 
-		spin_lock(&watchdog_output_lock);
+		printk_cpu_sync_get_irqsave(flags);
 		pr_emerg("BUG: soft lockup - CPU#%d stuck for %us! [%s:%d]\n",
 			smp_processor_id(), duration,
 			current->comm, task_pid_nr(current));
@@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart watchdog_timer_fn(struct hrtimer *hrtimer)
 			show_regs(regs);
 		else
 			dump_stack();
-		spin_unlock(&watchdog_output_lock);
+		printk_cpu_sync_put_irqrestore(flags);
 
 		if (softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace) {
 			trigger_allbutcpu_cpu_backtrace(smp_processor_id());