linux/kernel/printk, branch v4.8

printk/nmi: avoid direct printk()-s from __printk_nmi_flush()

2016-09-02T00:52:01Z

__printk_nmi_flush() can be called from nmi_panic(), therefore it has to test whether it's executed in NMI context and thus must route the messages through deferred printk() or via direct printk(). This is to avoid potential deadlocks, as described in commit cf9b1106c81c ("printk/nmi: flush NMI messages on the system panic"). However there remain two places where __printk_nmi_flush() does unconditional direct printk() calls: - pr_err("printk_nmi_flush: internal error ...") - pr_cont("\n") Factor out print_nmi_seq_line() parts into a new printk_nmi_flush_line() function, which takes care of in_nmi(), and use it in __printk_nmi_flush() for printing and error-reporting. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160830161354.581-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

printk: fix parsing of "brl=" option

2016-08-27T00:39:35Z

Commit bbeddf52adc1 ("printk: move braille console support into separate braille.[ch] files") moved the parsing of braille-related options into _braille_console_setup(), changing the type of variable str from char* to char**. In this commit, memcmp(str, "brl,", 4) was correctly updated to memcmp(*str, "brl,", 4) but not memcmp(str, "brl=", 4). Update the code to make "brl=" option work again and replace memcmp() with strncmp() to make the compiler able to detect such an issue. Fixes: bbeddf52adc1 ("printk: move braille console support into separate braille.[ch] files") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160823165700.28952-1-nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss Cc: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Revert "printk: create pr_ functions"

2016-08-09T17:48:18Z

This reverts commit 874f9c7da9a4acbc1b9e12ca722579fb50e4d142. Geert Uytterhoeven reports: "This change seems to have an (unintendent?) side-effect. Before, pr_*() calls without a trailing newline characters would be printed with a newline character appended, both on the console and in the output of the dmesg command. After this commit, no new line character is appended, and the output of the next pr_*() call of the same type may be appended, like in: - Truncating RAM at 0x0000000040000000-0x00000000c0000000 to -0x0000000070000000 - Ignoring RAM at 0x0000000200000000-0x0000000240000000 (!CONFIG_HIGHMEM) + Truncating RAM at 0x0000000040000000-0x00000000c0000000 to -0x0000000070000000Ignoring RAM at 0x0000000200000000-0x0000000240000000 (!CONFIG_HIGHMEM)" Joe Perches says: "No, that is not intentional. The newline handling code inside vprintk_emit is a bit involved and for now I suggest a revert until this has all the same behavior as earlier" Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Requested-by: Joe Perches Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

printk: Remove unnecessary #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK

2016-08-08T18:29:39Z

In commit 874f9c7da9a4 ("printk: create pr_ functions"), new pr_level defines were added to printk.c. These new defines are guarded by an #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK - however, there is already a surrounding #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK starting a lot earlier in line 249 which means the newly introduced #ifdef is unnecessary. Let's remove it to avoid confusion. Signed-off-by: Andreas Ziegler Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

printk: add kernel parameter to control writes to /dev/kmsg

2016-08-02T23:35:06Z

Add a "printk.devkmsg" kernel command line parameter which controls how userspace writes into /dev/kmsg. It has three options: * ratelimit - ratelimit logging from userspace. * on - unlimited logging from userspace * off - logging from userspace gets ignored The default setting is to ratelimit the messages written to it. This changes the kernel default setting of "on" to "ratelimit" and we do that because we want to keep userspace spamming /dev/kmsg to sane levels. This is especially moot when a small kernel log buffer wraps around and messages get lost. So the ratelimiting setting should be a sane setting where kernel messages should have a bit higher chance of survival from all the spamming. It additionally does not limit logging to /dev/kmsg while the system is booting if we haven't disabled it on the command line. Furthermore, we can control the logging from a lower priority sysctl interface - kernel.printk_devkmsg. That interface will succeed only if printk.devkmsg *hasn't* been supplied on the command line. If it has, then printk.devkmsg is a one-time setting which remains for the duration of the system lifetime. This "locking" of the setting is to prevent userspace from changing the logging on us through sysctl(2). This patch is based on previous patches from Linus and Steven. [bp@suse.de: fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160719072344.GC25563@nazgul.tnic Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160716061745.15795-3-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dave Young Cc: Franck Bui Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Uwe Kleine-König Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

printk: include instead of

2016-08-02T23:35:05Z

asm-generic headers are generic implementations for architecture specific code and should not be included by common code. Thus use the asm/ version of sections.h to get at the linker sections. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468285008-7331-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

printk: introduce suppress_message_printing()

2016-08-02T23:35:04Z

Messages' levels and console log level are inspected when the actual printing occurs, which may provoke console_unlock() and console_cont_flush() to waste CPU cycles on every message that has loglevel above the current console_loglevel. Schematically, console_unlock() does the following: console_unlock() { ... for (;;) { ... raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&logbuf_lock, flags); skip: msg = log_from_idx(console_idx); if (msg->flags & LOG_NOCONS) { ... goto skip; } level = msg->level; len += msg_print_text(); >> sprintfs memcpy, etc. if (nr_ext_console_drivers) { ext_len = msg_print_ext_header(); >> scnprintf ext_len += msg_print_ext_body(); >> scnprintfs etc. } ... raw_spin_unlock(&logbuf_lock); call_console_drivers(level, ext_text, ext_len, text, len) { if (level >= console_loglevel && >> drop the message !ignore_loglevel) return; console->write(...); } local_irq_restore(flags); } ... } The thing here is this deferred `level >= console_loglevel' check. We are wasting CPU cycles on sprintfs/memcpy/etc. preparing the messages that we will eventually drop. This can be huge when we register a new CON_PRINTBUFFER console, for instance. For every such a console register_console() resets the console_seq, console_idx, console_prev and sets a `exclusive console' pointer to replay the log buffer to that just-registered console. And there can be a lot of messages to replay, in the worst case most of which can be dropped after console_loglevel test. We know messages' levels long before we call msg_print_text() and friends, so we can just move console_loglevel check out of call_console_drivers() and format a new message only if we are sure that it won't be dropped. The patch factors out loglevel check into suppress_message_printing() function and tests message->level and console_loglevel before formatting functions in console_unlock() and console_cont_flush() are getting executed. This improves things not only for exclusive CON_PRINTBUFFER consoles, but for every console_unlock() that attempts to print a message of level above the console_loglevel. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160627135012.8229-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Calvin Owens Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

printk: create pr_ functions

2016-08-02T23:35:04Z

Using functions instead of macros can reduce overall code size by eliminating unnecessary "KERN_SOH" prefixes from format strings. defconfig x86-64: $ size vmlinux* text data bss dec hex filename 10193570 4331464 1105920 15630954 ee826a vmlinux.new 10192623 4335560 1105920 15634103 ee8eb7 vmlinux.old As the return value are unimportant and unused in the kernel tree, these new functions return void. Miscellanea: - change pr_ macros to call new __pr_ functions - change vprintk_nmi and vprintk_default to add LOGLEVEL_ argument [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix LOGLEVEL_INFO, per Joe] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e16cc34479dfefcae37c98b481e6646f0f69efc3.1466718827.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

printk: do not include interrupt.h

2016-08-02T23:35:03Z

A trivial cosmetic change: interrupt.h header is redundant since commit 6b898c07cb1d ("console: use might_sleep in console_lock"). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160620132847.21930-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

printk: when dumping regs, show the stack, not thread_info

2016-07-28T23:07:41Z

We currently show: task: ti: task.ti: " "ti" and "task.ti" are redundant, and neither is actually what we want to show, which the the base of the thread stack. Change the display to show the stack pointer explicitly. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/543ac5bd66ff94000a57a02e11af7239571a3055.1468523549.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds