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authorSumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>2020-06-04 15:31:18 +0530
committerDaniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>2020-06-25 12:04:30 +0100
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kdb: Make kdb_printf() console handling more robust
While rounding up CPUs via NMIs, its possible that a rounded up CPU maybe holding a console port lock leading to kgdb master CPU stuck in a deadlock during invocation of console write operations. A similar deadlock could also be possible while using synchronous breakpoints. So in order to avoid such a deadlock, set oops_in_progress to encourage the console drivers to disregard their internal spin locks: in the current calling context the risk of deadlock is a bigger problem than risks due to re-entering the console driver. We operate directly on oops_in_progress rather than using bust_spinlocks() because the calls bust_spinlocks() makes on exit are not appropriate for this calling context. Suggested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1591264879-25920-4-git-send-email-sumit.garg@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
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