An emergency or panic context can takeover console ownership
while the current owner was printing a printk message. The
atomic printer will re-print the message that the previous
owner was printing. However, this can look confusing to the
user and may even seem as though a message was lost.
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Add a new field @nbcon_prev_seq to struct console to track
the sequence number to print that was assigned to the previous
console owner. If this matches the sequence number to print
that the current owner is assigned, then a takeover must have
occurred. In this case, print an additional message to inform
the user that the previous message is being printed again.
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** replaying previous printk message **
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Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
---
include/linux/console.h | 3 +++
kernel/printk/internal.h | 1 +
kernel/printk/nbcon.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
kernel/printk/printk.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 47 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/console.h b/include/linux/console.h
index adcc1a74aeee..9927f08ac054 100644
--- a/include/linux/console.h
+++ b/include/linux/console.h
@@ -325,6 +325,7 @@ struct nbcon_write_context {
* @nbcon_state: State for nbcon consoles
* @nbcon_seq: Sequence number of the next record for nbcon to print
* @nbcon_device_ctxt: Context available for non-printing operations
+ * @nbcon_prev_seq: Seq num the previous nbcon owner was assigned to print
* @pbufs: Pointer to nbcon private buffer
* @kthread: Printer kthread for this console
* @rcuwait: RCU-safe wait object for @kthread waking
@@ -445,6 +446,8 @@ struct console {
atomic_t __private nbcon_state;
atomic_long_t __private nbcon_seq;
struct nbcon_context __private nbcon_device_ctxt;
+ atomic_long_t __private nbcon_prev_seq;
+
struct printk_buffers *pbufs;
struct task_struct *kthread;
struct rcuwait rcuwait;
diff --git a/kernel/printk/internal.h b/kernel/printk/internal.h
index 5d4722310850..9e027e08918d 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/internal.h
+++ b/kernel/printk/internal.h
@@ -233,4 +233,5 @@ bool printk_get_next_message(struct printk_message *pmsg, u64 seq,
#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK
void console_prepend_dropped(struct printk_message *pmsg, unsigned long dropped);
+void console_prepend_replay(struct printk_message *pmsg);
#endif
diff --git a/kernel/printk/nbcon.c b/kernel/printk/nbcon.c
index 480a0ced2708..8c92b076c745 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/nbcon.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/nbcon.c
@@ -866,6 +866,7 @@ static bool nbcon_emit_next_record(struct nbcon_write_context *wctxt, bool use_a
unsigned long con_dropped;
struct nbcon_state cur;
unsigned long dropped;
+ unsigned long ulseq;
/*
* The printk buffers are filled within an unsafe section. This
@@ -891,6 +892,28 @@ static bool nbcon_emit_next_record(struct nbcon_write_context *wctxt, bool use_a
if (dropped && !is_extended)
console_prepend_dropped(&pmsg, dropped);
+ /*
+ * If the previous owner was assigned the same record, this context
+ * has taken over ownership and is replaying the record. Prepend a
+ * message to let the user know the record is replayed.
+ */
+ ulseq = atomic_long_read(&ACCESS_PRIVATE(con, nbcon_prev_seq));
+ if (__ulseq_to_u64seq(prb, ulseq) == pmsg.seq) {
+ console_prepend_replay(&pmsg);
+ } else {
+ /*
+ * Ensure this context is still the owner before trying to
+ * update @nbcon_prev_seq. Otherwise the value in @ulseq may
+ * not be from the previous owner.
+ */
+ nbcon_state_read(con, &cur);
+ if (!nbcon_context_can_proceed(ctxt, &cur))
+ return false;
+
+ atomic_long_try_cmpxchg(&ACCESS_PRIVATE(con, nbcon_prev_seq), &ulseq,
+ __u64seq_to_ulseq(pmsg.seq));
+ }
+
if (!nbcon_context_exit_unsafe(ctxt))
return false;
@@ -1631,6 +1654,7 @@ void nbcon_init(struct console *con, u64 init_seq)
rcuwait_init(&con->rcuwait);
init_irq_work(&con->irq_work, nbcon_irq_work);
nbcon_seq_force(con, init_seq);
+ atomic_long_set(&ACCESS_PRIVATE(con, nbcon_prev_seq), -1UL);
nbcon_state_set(con, &state);
nbcon_kthread_create(con);
}
diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index fcbf794a0aaf..cf0d612329bf 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -2867,6 +2867,25 @@ void console_prepend_dropped(struct printk_message *pmsg, unsigned long dropped)
__console_prepend_scratch(pmsg, len);
}
+/*
+ * Prepend the message in @pmsg->pbufs->outbuf with a "replay message".
+ * @pmsg->outbuf_len is updated appropriately.
+ *
+ * @pmsg is the printk message to prepend.
+ */
+void console_prepend_replay(struct printk_message *pmsg)
+{
+ struct printk_buffers *pbufs = pmsg->pbufs;
+ const size_t scratchbuf_sz = sizeof(pbufs->scratchbuf);
+ char *scratchbuf = &pbufs->scratchbuf[0];
+ size_t len;
+
+ len = scnprintf(scratchbuf, scratchbuf_sz,
+ "** replaying previous printk message **\n");
+
+ __console_prepend_scratch(pmsg, len);
+}
+
/*
* Read and format the specified record (or a later record if the specified
* record is not available).
--
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