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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2023-09-16 21:26:00 +0206 |
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| committer | Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> | 2023-09-18 17:03:45 +0200 |
| commit | 6b93bb41f6eaa1cc5c5f30ec3b687b380f116cd0 (patch) | |
| tree | 50a6cc0fc648eac631c23acf94a73045ec316881 /kernel/printk/printk.c | |
| parent | 01a46efcd8f4af44691d7273edf0c5c07dc9b619 (diff) | |
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printk: Add non-BKL (nbcon) console basic infrastructure
The current console/printk subsystem is protected by a Big Kernel Lock,
(aka console_lock) which has ill defined semantics and is more or less
stateless. This puts severe limitations on the console subsystem and
makes forced takeover and output in emergency and panic situations a
fragile endeavour that is based on try and pray.
The goal of non-BKL (nbcon) consoles is to break out of the console lock
jail and to provide a new infrastructure that avoids the pitfalls and
also allows console drivers to be gradually converted over.
The proposed infrastructure aims for the following properties:
- Per console locking instead of global locking
- Per console state that allows to make informed decisions
- Stateful handover and takeover
As a first step, state is added to struct console. The per console state
is an atomic_t using a 32bit bit field.
Reserve state bits, which will be populated later in the series. Wire
it up into the console register/unregister functionality.
It was decided to use a bitfield because using a plain u32 with
mask/shift operations resulted in uncomprehensible code.
Co-developed-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner (Intel) <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230916192007.608398-2-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/printk/printk.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/printk/printk.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c index 7e0b4dd02398..5f372eaceb29 100644 --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c @@ -3326,9 +3326,10 @@ static void try_enable_default_console(struct console *newcon) newcon->flags |= CON_CONSDEV; } -#define con_printk(lvl, con, fmt, ...) \ - printk(lvl pr_fmt("%sconsole [%s%d] " fmt), \ - (con->flags & CON_BOOT) ? "boot" : "", \ +#define con_printk(lvl, con, fmt, ...) \ + printk(lvl pr_fmt("%s%sconsole [%s%d] " fmt), \ + (con->flags & CON_NBCON) ? "" : "legacy ", \ + (con->flags & CON_BOOT) ? "boot" : "", \ con->name, con->index, ##__VA_ARGS__) static void console_init_seq(struct console *newcon, bool bootcon_registered) @@ -3488,6 +3489,9 @@ void register_console(struct console *newcon) newcon->dropped = 0; console_init_seq(newcon, bootcon_registered); + if (newcon->flags & CON_NBCON) + nbcon_init(newcon); + /* * Put this console in the list - keep the * preferred driver at the head of the list. @@ -3579,6 +3583,9 @@ static int unregister_console_locked(struct console *console) */ synchronize_srcu(&console_srcu); + if (console->flags & CON_NBCON) + nbcon_cleanup(console); + console_sysfs_notify(); if (console->exit) |