[PATCH 4.0-rc1 v17 4/6] printk: Simple implementation for NMI backtracing

[Daniel Thompson]

Currently there is a quite a pile of code sitting in
arch/x86/kernel/apic/hw_nmi.c to support safe all-cpu backtracing from NMI.
The code is inaccessible to backtrace implementations for other
architectures, which is a shame because they would probably like to be
safe too.

Copy this code into printk. We'll port the x86 NMI backtrace to it in a
later patch.

Incidentally, technically I think it might be safe to call
printk_nmi_prepare() from NMI, providing care were taken to honour the
return code. printk_nmi_complete() cannot be called from NMI but could
be scheduled using irq_work_queue(). However honouring the return code
means sometimes it is impossible to get the message out so in most cases
I'd say using this code in such a way should probably attract sympathy
and/or derision rather than admiration.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/printk.h |  18 ++++++
 init/Kconfig           |   3 +
 kernel/printk/printk.c | 149 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 170 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/printk.h b/include/linux/printk.h
index baa3f97d8ce8..7fd94e644976 100644
--- a/include/linux/printk.h
+++ b/include/linux/printk.h
@@ -228,6 +228,24 @@ static inline void show_regs_print_info(const char *log_lvl)
 }
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK_NMI
+/*
+ * printk_nmi_prepare/complete are called to prepare the system for
+ * some or all cores to issue trace from NMI. printk_nmi_complete will
+ * print buffered output and cannot (safely) be called from NMI.
+ */
+extern int printk_nmi_prepare(void);
+extern void printk_nmi_complete(void);
+
+/*
+ * printk_nmi_this_cpu_begin/end are used divert/restore printk on this
+ * cpu. The result is the output of printk() (by this CPU) will be
+ * stored in temporary buffers for later printing by printk_nmi_complete.
+ */
+extern void printk_nmi_this_cpu_begin(void);
+extern void printk_nmi_this_cpu_end(void);
+#endif
+
 extern asmlinkage void dump_stack(void) __cold;
 
 #ifndef pr_fmt
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index f5dbc6d4261b..4f00d11ef0a4 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1421,6 +1421,9 @@ config PRINTK
 	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
 	  strongly discouraged.
 
+config PRINTK_NMI
+	bool
+
 config BUG
 	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
 	default y
diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index 01cfd69c54c6..291271300cd5 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -1829,6 +1829,155 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vprintk_default);
  */
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(printk_func_t, printk_func) = vprintk_default;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK_NMI
+
+#define NMI_BUF_SIZE		4096
+
+struct nmi_seq_buf {
+	unsigned char		buffer[NMI_BUF_SIZE];
+	struct seq_buf		seq;
+};
+
+/* Safe printing in NMI context */
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct nmi_seq_buf, nmi_print_seq);
+
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(printk_func_t, nmi_print_saved_print_func);
+
+/* "in progress" flag of NMI printing */
+static unsigned long nmi_print_flag;
+
+static int __init printk_nmi_init(void)
+{
+	struct nmi_seq_buf *s;
+	int cpu;
+
+	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
+		s = &per_cpu(nmi_print_seq, cpu);
+		seq_buf_init(&s->seq, s->buffer, NMI_BUF_SIZE);
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+pure_initcall(printk_nmi_init);
+
+/*
+ * It is not safe to call printk() directly from NMI handlers.
+ * It may be fine if the NMI detected a lock up and we have no choice
+ * but to do so, but doing a NMI on all other CPUs to get a back trace
+ * can be done with a sysrq-l. We don't want that to lock up, which
+ * can happen if the NMI interrupts a printk in progress.
+ *
+ * Instead, we redirect the vprintk() to this nmi_vprintk() that writes
+ * the content into a per cpu seq_buf buffer. Then when the NMIs are
+ * all done, we can safely dump the contents of the seq_buf to a printk()
+ * from a non NMI context.
+ *
+ * This is not a generic printk() implementation and must be used with
+ * great care. In particular there is a static limit on the quantity of
+ * data that may be emitted during NMI, only one client can be active at
+ * one time (arbitrated by the return value of printk_nmi_begin() and
+ * it is required that something at task or interrupt context be scheduled
+ * to issue the output.
+ */
+static int nmi_vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
+{
+	struct nmi_seq_buf *s = this_cpu_ptr(&nmi_print_seq);
+	unsigned int len = seq_buf_used(&s->seq);
+
+	seq_buf_vprintf(&s->seq, fmt, args);
+	return seq_buf_used(&s->seq) - len;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Reserve the NMI printk mechanism. Return an error if some other component
+ * is already using it.
+ */
+int printk_nmi_prepare(void)
+{
+	if (test_and_set_bit(0, &nmi_print_flag)) {
+		/*
+		 * If something is already using the NMI print facility we
+		 * can't allow a second one...
+		 */
+		return -EBUSY;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void print_seq_line(struct nmi_seq_buf *s, int start, int end)
+{
+	const char *buf = s->buffer + start;
+
+	printk("%.*s", (end - start) + 1, buf);
+}
+
+void printk_nmi_complete(void)
+{
+	struct nmi_seq_buf *s;
+	int len, cpu, i, last_i;
+
+	/*
+	 * Now that all the NMIs have triggered, we can dump out their
+	 * back traces safely to the console.
+	 */
+	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
+		s = &per_cpu(nmi_print_seq, cpu);
+		last_i = 0;
+
+		len = seq_buf_used(&s->seq);
+		if (!len)
+			continue;
+
+		/* Print line by line. */
+		for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+			if (s->buffer[i] == '\n') {
+				print_seq_line(s, last_i, i);
+				last_i = i + 1;
+			}
+		}
+		/* Check if there was a partial line. */
+		if (last_i < len) {
+			print_seq_line(s, last_i, len - 1);
+			pr_cont("\n");
+		}
+
+		/* Wipe out the buffer ready for the next time around. */
+		seq_buf_clear(&s->seq);
+	}
+
+	clear_bit(0, &nmi_print_flag);
+	smp_mb__after_atomic();
+}
+
+void printk_nmi_this_cpu_begin(void)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Detect double-begins and report them. This code is unsafe (because
+	 * it will print from NMI) but things are pretty badly damaged if the
+	 * NMI re-enters and is somehow granted permission to use NMI printk,
+	 * so how much worse can it get? Also since this code interferes with
+	 * the operation of printk it is unlikely that any consequential
+	 * failures will be able to log anything making this our last
+	 * opportunity to tell anyone that something is wrong.
+	 */
+	if (this_cpu_read(nmi_print_saved_print_func)) {
+		this_cpu_write(printk_func, vprintk_default);
+		BUG();
+	}
+
+	this_cpu_write(nmi_print_saved_print_func, this_cpu_read(printk_func));
+	this_cpu_write(printk_func, nmi_vprintk);
+}
+
+void printk_nmi_this_cpu_end(void)
+{
+	this_cpu_write(printk_func, this_cpu_read(nmi_print_saved_print_func));
+	this_cpu_write(nmi_print_saved_print_func, NULL);
+}
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_PRINTK_NMI */
+
 /**
  * printk - print a kernel message
  * @fmt: format string
-- 
2.1.0

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