starfive-tech/linux.git/include/linux/printk.h, branch VF2_v3.4.5

Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

2021-09-03T22:33:47+00:00

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - Add -s option (strict mode) to merge_config.sh to make it fail when any symbol is redefined. - Show a warning if a different compiler is used for building external modules. - Infer --target from ARCH for CC=clang to let you cross-compile the kernel without CROSS_COMPILE. - Make the integrated assembler default (LLVM_IAS=1) for CC=clang. - Add to the kernel source instead of borrowing from the compiler. - Add Nick Desaulniers as a Kbuild reviewer. - Drop stale cc-option tests. - Fix the combination of CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS and CONFIG_LTO_CLANG to handle symbols in inline assembly. - Show a warning if 'FORCE' is missing for if_changed rules. - Various cleanups * tag 'kbuild-v5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (39 commits) kbuild: redo fake deps at include/ksym/*.h kbuild: clean up objtool_args slightly modpost: get the *.mod file path more simply checkkconfigsymbols.py: Fix the '--ignore' option kbuild: merge vmlinux_link() between ARCH=um and other architectures kbuild: do not remove 'linux' link in scripts/link-vmlinux.sh kbuild: merge vmlinux_link() between the ordinary link and Clang LTO kbuild: remove stale *.symversions kbuild: remove unused quiet_cmd_update_lto_symversions gen_compile_commands: extract compiler command from a series of commands x86: remove cc-option-yn test for -mtune= arc: replace cc-option-yn uses with cc-option s390: replace cc-option-yn uses with cc-option ia64: move core-y in arch/ia64/Makefile to arch/ia64/Kbuild sparc: move the install rule to arch/sparc/Makefile security: remove unneeded subdir-$(CONFIG_...) kbuild: sh: remove unused install script kbuild: Fix 'no symbols' warning when CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSD_KSYMS=y kbuild: Switch to 'f' variants of integrated assembler flag kbuild: Shuffle blank line to improve comment meaning ...

Merge branch 'rework/printk_safe-removal' into for-linus

2021-08-30T14:36:10+00:00

Merge branch 'for-5.15-verbose-console' into for-linus

2021-08-30T12:56:28+00:00

isystem: ship and use stdarg.h

2021-08-19T00:02:55+00:00

Ship minimal stdarg.h (1 type, 4 macros) as . stdarg.h is the only userspace header commonly used in the kernel. GPL 2 version of can be extracted from http://archive.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gcc-4.2/gcc-4.2_4.2.4.orig.tar.gz Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

printk: Add printk.console_no_auto_verbose boot parameter

2021-07-29T14:29:35+00:00

console_verbose() increases console loglevel to CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_MOTORMOUTH, which provides more information to debug a panic/oops. Unfortunately, in Arista we maintain some DUTs (Device Under Test) that are configured to have 9600 baud rate. While verbose console messages have their value to post-analyze crashes, on such setup they: - may prevent panic/oops messages being printed - take too long to flush on console resulting in watchdog reboot In all our setups we use kdump which saves dmesg buffer after panic, so in reality those extra messages on console provide no additional value, but rather add risk of not getting to __crash_kexec(). Provide printk.console_no_auto_verbose boot parameter, which allows to switch off printk being verbose on oops/panic/lockdep. Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: John Ogness Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov Suggested-by: Petr Mladek Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Tested-by: Petr Mladek Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210727130635.675184-3-dima@arista.com

printk: Remove console_silent()

2021-07-29T14:07:06+00:00

It' unused since removal of mn10300: commit 739d875dd698 ("mn10300: Remove the architecture") x86 stopped using it in v2.6.12 (see history git): commit 7574828b3dbb ("[PATCH] x86_64: add nmi button support") Let's clean it up from the header. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210727130635.675184-2-dima@arista.com

printk: remove NMI tracking

2021-07-26T13:09:44+00:00

All NMI contexts are handled the same as the safe context: store the message and defer printing. There is no need to have special NMI context tracking for this. Using in_nmi() is enough. There are several parts of the kernel that are manually calling into the printk NMI context tracking in order to cause general printk deferred printing: arch/arm/kernel/smp.c arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c kernel/trace/trace.c For arm/kernel/smp.c and powerpc/kexec/crash.c, provide a new function pair printk_deferred_enter/exit that explicitly achieves the same objective. For ftrace, remove the printk context manipulation completely. It was added in commit 03fc7f9c99c1 ("printk/nmi: Prevent deadlock when accessing the main log buffer in NMI"). The purpose was to enforce storing messages directly into the ring buffer even in NMI context. It really should have only modified the behavior in NMI context. There is no need for a special behavior any longer. All messages are always stored directly now. The console deferring is handled transparently in vprintk(). Signed-off-by: John Ogness [pmladek@suse.com: Remove special handling in ftrace.c completely. Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210715193359.25946-5-john.ogness@linutronix.de

printk: remove safe buffers

2021-07-26T13:09:34+00:00

With @logbuf_lock removed, the high level printk functions for storing messages are lockless. Messages can be stored from any context, so there is no need for the NMI and safe buffers anymore. Remove the NMI and safe buffers. Although the safe buffers are removed, the NMI and safe context tracking is still in place. In these contexts, store the message immediately but still use irq_work to defer the console printing. Since printk recursion tracking is in place, safe context tracking for most of printk is not needed. Remove it. Only safe context tracking relating to the console and console_owner locks is left in place. This is because the console and console_owner locks are needed for the actual printing. Signed-off-by: John Ogness Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210715193359.25946-4-john.ogness@linutronix.de

printk: Move the printk() kerneldoc comment to its new home

2021-07-26T10:36:44+00:00

Commit 337015573718 ("printk: Userspace format indexing support") turned printk() into a macro, but left the kerneldoc comment for it with the (now) _printk() function, resulting in this docs-build warning: kernel/printk/printk.c:1: warning: 'printk' not found Move the kerneldoc comment back next to the (now) macro it's meant to describe and have the docs build find it there. Fixes: 337015573718b161 ("printk: Userspace format indexing support") Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87o8aqt7qn.fsf@meer.lwn.net

printk: Userspace format indexing support

2021-07-19T09:57:48+00:00

We have a number of systems industry-wide that have a subset of their functionality that works as follows: 1. Receive a message from local kmsg, serial console, or netconsole; 2. Apply a set of rules to classify the message; 3. Do something based on this classification (like scheduling a remediation for the machine), rinse, and repeat. As a couple of examples of places we have this implemented just inside Facebook, although this isn't a Facebook-specific problem, we have this inside our netconsole processing (for alarm classification), and as part of our machine health checking. We use these messages to determine fairly important metrics around production health, and it's important that we get them right. While for some kinds of issues we have counters, tracepoints, or metrics with a stable interface which can reliably indicate the issue, in order to react to production issues quickly we need to work with the interface which most kernel developers naturally use when developing: printk. Most production issues come from unexpected phenomena, and as such usually the code in question doesn't have easily usable tracepoints or other counters available for the specific problem being mitigated. We have a number of lines of monitoring defence against problems in production (host metrics, process metrics, service metrics, etc), and where it's not feasible to reliably monitor at another level, this kind of pragmatic netconsole monitoring is essential. As one would expect, monitoring using printk is rather brittle for a number of reasons -- most notably that the message might disappear entirely in a new version of the kernel, or that the message may change in some way that the regex or other classification methods start to silently fail. One factor that makes this even harder is that, under normal operation, many of these messages are never expected to be hit. For example, there may be a rare hardware bug which one wants to detect if it was to ever happen again, but its recurrence is not likely or anticipated. This precludes using something like checking whether the printk in question was printed somewhere fleetwide recently to determine whether the message in question is still present or not, since we don't anticipate that it should be printed anywhere, but still need to monitor for its future presence in the long-term. This class of issue has happened on a number of occasions, causing unhealthy machines with hardware issues to remain in production for longer than ideal. As a recent example, some monitoring around blk_update_request fell out of date and caused semi-broken machines to remain in production for longer than would be desirable. Searching through the codebase to find the message is also extremely fragile, because many of the messages are further constructed beyond their callsite (eg. btrfs_printk and other module-specific wrappers, each with their own functionality). Even if they aren't, guessing the format and formulation of the underlying message based on the aesthetics of the message emitted is not a recipe for success at scale, and our previous issues with fleetwide machine health checking demonstrate as much. This provides a solution to the issue of silently changed or deleted printks: we record pointers to all printk format strings known at compile time into a new .printk_index section, both in vmlinux and modules. At runtime, this can then be iterated by looking at /printk/index/, which emits the following format, both readable by humans and able to be parsed by machines: $ head -1 vmlinux; shuf -n 5 vmlinux # filename:line function "format" <5> block/blk-settings.c:661 disk_stack_limits "%s: Warning: Device %s is misaligned\n" <4> kernel/trace/trace.c:8296 trace_create_file "Could not create tracefs '%s' entry\n" <6> arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c:144 _hpet_print_config "hpet: %s(%d):\n" <6> init/do_mounts.c:605 prepare_namespace "Waiting for root device %s...\n" <6> drivers/acpi/osl.c:1410 acpi_no_auto_serialize_setup "ACPI: auto-serialization disabled\n" This mitigates the majority of cases where we have a highly-specific printk which we want to match on, as we can now enumerate and check whether the format changed or the printk callsite disappeared entirely in userspace. This allows us to catch changes to printks we monitor earlier and decide what to do about it before it becomes problematic. There is no additional runtime cost for printk callers or printk itself, and the assembly generated is exactly the same. Signed-off-by: Chris Down Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: Jessica Yu Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: John Ogness Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Kees Cook Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Tested-by: Petr Mladek Reported-by: kernel test robot Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko Acked-by: Jessica Yu # for module.{c,h} Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e42070983637ac5e384f17fbdbe86d19c7b212a5.1623775748.git.chris@chrisdown.name