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authorSeiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>2013-01-11 18:09:41 +0000
committerTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>2013-01-11 10:20:50 -0800
commit9f244e9cfd70c7c0f82d3c92ce772ab2a92d9f64 (patch)
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parentd1c3ed669a2d452cacfb48c2d171a1f364dae2ed (diff)
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pstore: Avoid deadlock in panic and emergency-restart path
[Issue] When pstore is in panic and emergency-restart paths, it may be blocked in those paths because it simply takes spin_lock. This is an example scenario which pstore may hang up in a panic path: - cpuA grabs psinfo->buf_lock - cpuB panics and calls smp_send_stop - smp_send_stop sends IRQ to cpuA - after 1 second, cpuB gives up on cpuA and sends an NMI instead - cpuA is now in an NMI handler while still holding buf_lock - cpuB is deadlocked This case may happen if a firmware has a bug and cpuA is stuck talking with it more than one second. Also, this is a similar scenario in an emergency-restart path: - cpuA grabs psinfo->buf_lock and stucks in a firmware - cpuB kicks emergency-restart via either sysrq-b or hangcheck timer. And then, cpuB is deadlocked by taking psinfo->buf_lock again. [Solution] This patch avoids the deadlocking issues in both panic and emergency_restart paths by introducing a function, is_non_blocking_path(), to check if a cpu can be blocked in current path. With this patch, pstore is not blocked even if another cpu has taken a spin_lock, in those paths by changing from spin_lock_irqsave to spin_trylock_irqsave. In addition, according to a comment of emergency_restart() in kernel/sys.c, spin_lock shouldn't be taken in an emergency_restart path to avoid deadlock. This patch fits the comment below. <snip> /** * emergency_restart - reboot the system * * Without shutting down any hardware or taking any locks * reboot the system. This is called when we know we are in * trouble so this is our best effort to reboot. This is * safe to call in interrupt context. */ void emergency_restart(void) <snip> Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com> Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/pstore')
-rw-r--r--fs/pstore/platform.c35
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/pstore/platform.c b/fs/pstore/platform.c
index 5ea2e77ff023..86d1038b5a12 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/platform.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/platform.c
@@ -96,6 +96,27 @@ static const char *get_reason_str(enum kmsg_dump_reason reason)
}
}
+bool pstore_cannot_block_path(enum kmsg_dump_reason reason)
+{
+ /*
+ * In case of NMI path, pstore shouldn't be blocked
+ * regardless of reason.
+ */
+ if (in_nmi())
+ return true;
+
+ switch (reason) {
+ /* In panic case, other cpus are stopped by smp_send_stop(). */
+ case KMSG_DUMP_PANIC:
+ /* Emergency restart shouldn't be blocked by spin lock. */
+ case KMSG_DUMP_EMERG:
+ return true;
+ default:
+ return false;
+ }
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pstore_cannot_block_path);
+
/*
* callback from kmsg_dump. (s2,l2) has the most recently
* written bytes, older bytes are in (s1,l1). Save as much
@@ -114,10 +135,12 @@ static void pstore_dump(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper,
why = get_reason_str(reason);
- if (in_nmi()) {
- is_locked = spin_trylock(&psinfo->buf_lock);
- if (!is_locked)
- pr_err("pstore dump routine blocked in NMI, may corrupt error record\n");
+ if (pstore_cannot_block_path(reason)) {
+ is_locked = spin_trylock_irqsave(&psinfo->buf_lock, flags);
+ if (!is_locked) {
+ pr_err("pstore dump routine blocked in %s path, may corrupt error record\n"
+ , in_nmi() ? "NMI" : why);
+ }
} else
spin_lock_irqsave(&psinfo->buf_lock, flags);
oopscount++;
@@ -143,9 +166,9 @@ static void pstore_dump(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper,
total += hsize + len;
part++;
}
- if (in_nmi()) {
+ if (pstore_cannot_block_path(reason)) {
if (is_locked)
- spin_unlock(&psinfo->buf_lock);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&psinfo->buf_lock, flags);
} else
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&psinfo->buf_lock, flags);
}