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* lib/vsprintf: Remove atomic-unsafe support for %pCrGeert Uytterhoeven2018-06-051-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "%pCr" formats the current rate of a clock, and calls clk_get_rate(). The latter obtains a mutex, hence it must not be called from atomic context. Remove support for this rarely-used format, as vsprintf() (and e.g. printk()) must be callable from any context. Any remaining out-of-tree users will start seeing the clock's name printed instead of its rate. Reported-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com> Fixes: 900cca2944254edd ("lib/vsprintf: add %pC{,n,r} format specifiers for clocks") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1527845302-12159-5-git-send-email-geert+renesas@glider.be To: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com> To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> To: Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com> To: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> To: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> To: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com> To: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> To: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com> To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-clk@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.1+ Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
* Documentation: Mention why %p prints ptrvalJoel Stanley2018-03-231-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | When debugging recent kernels, people will see '(ptrval)' but there isn't much information as to what that means. Briefly describe why it's there. Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au> Acked-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2018-02-011-22/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek: - Add a console_msg_format command line option: The value "default" keeps the old "[time stamp] text\n" format. The value "syslog" allows to see the syslog-like "<log level>[timestamp] text" format. This feature was requested by people doing regression tests, for example, 0day robot. They want to have both filtered and full logs at hands. - Reduce the risk of softlockup: Pass the console owner in a busy loop. This is a new approach to the old problem. It was first proposed by Steven Rostedt on Kernel Summit 2017. It marks a context in which the console_lock owner calls console drivers and could not sleep. On the other side, printk() callers could detect this state and use a busy wait instead of a simple console_trylock(). Finally, the console_lock owner checks if there is a busy waiter at the end of the special context and eventually passes the console_lock to the waiter. The hand-off works surprisingly well and helps in many situations. Well, there is still a possibility of the softlockup, for example, when the flood of messages stops and the last owner still has too much to flush. There is increasing number of people having problems with printk-related softlockups. We might eventually need to get better solution. Anyway, this looks like a good start and promising direction. - Do not allow to schedule in console_unlock() called from printk(): This reverts an older controversial commit. The reschedule helped to avoid softlockups. But it also slowed down the console output. This patch is obsoleted by the new console waiter logic described above. In fact, the reschedule made the hand-off less effective. - Deprecate "%pf" and "%pF" format specifier: It was needed on ia64, ppc64 and parisc64 to dereference function descriptors and show the real function address. It is done transparently by "%ps" and "pS" format specifier now. Sergey Senozhatsky found that all the function descriptors were in a special elf section and could be easily detected. - Remove printk_symbol() API: It has been obsoleted by "%pS" format specifier, and this change helped to remove few continuous lines and a less intuitive old API. - Remove redundant memsets: Sergey removed unnecessary memset when processing printk.devkmsg command line option. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk: (27 commits) printk: drop redundant devkmsg_log_str memsets printk: Never set console_may_schedule in console_trylock() printk: Hide console waiter logic into helpers printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes kallsyms: remove print_symbol() function checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning symbol lookup: introduce dereference_symbol_descriptor() parisc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference powerpc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference ia64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference sections: split dereference_function_descriptor() openrisc: Fix conflicting types for _exext and _stext lib: do not use print_symbol() irq debug: do not use print_symbol() sysfs: do not use print_symbol() drivers: do not use print_symbol() x86: do not use print_symbol() unicore32: do not use print_symbol() sh: do not use print_symbol() mn10300: do not use print_symbol() ...
* doc: convert printk-formats.txt to rstTobin C. Harding2017-12-211-0/+492
Documentation/printk-formats.txt is a candidate for conversion to ReStructuredText format. Some effort has already been made to do this conversion even thought the suffix is currently .txt Changes required to complete conversion - Move printk-formats.txt to core-api/printk-formats.rst - Add entry to Documentation/core-api/index.rst - Remove entry from Documentation/00-INDEX - Fix minor grammatical errors. - Order heading adornments as suggested by rst docs. - Use 'Passed by reference' uniformly. - Update pointer documentation around %px specifier. - Fix erroneous double backticks (to commas). - Remove extraneous double backticks (suggested by Jonathan Corbet). - Simplify documentation for kobject. Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc> [jc: downcased "kernel"] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>