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authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2026-02-10 19:51:59 -0800
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2026-02-10 19:52:00 -0800
commitf2c7fdebf03986cd820028ab933afad670bfe8a2 (patch)
tree33b3a4f5f09701f3b08b5661b065e9dc5978c93d /kernel
parentad1f18e985cb2758c60f644c8fbc92a97bb6d2ba (diff)
parent79ba362b43373d19ce6c989b0498f7a67740ff6e (diff)
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Merge branch 'net-netconsole-convert-to-nbcon-console-infrastructure'
Breno Leitao says: ==================== net: netconsole: convert to NBCON console infrastructure This series adds support for the nbcon (new buffer console) infrastructure to netconsole, enabling lock-free, priority-based console operations that are safer in crash scenarios. The implementation is introduced in three steps: 0) Extend printk to expose CPU and taskname (task->comm) where the printk originated from. (Thanks John and Petr for the support in getting this done) 1) Refactor the message fragmentation logic into a reusable helper function 2) Extend nbcon support to non-extended (basic) consoles using the same infrastructure. The initial discussion about it appeared a while ago in [1], in order to solve Mike's HARDIRQ-safe -> HARDIRQ-unsafe lock order warning, and the root cause is that some hosts were calling IRQ unsafe locks from inside console lock. At that time, we didn't have the CON_NBCON_ATOMIC_UNSAFE yet. John kindly implemented CON_NBCON_ATOMIC_UNSAFE in 187de7c212e5 ("printk: nbcon: Allow unsafe write_atomic() for panic"), and now we can implement netconsole on top of nbcon. Important to note that netconsole continues to call netpoll and the network TX helpers with interrupt disable, given the TX are called with target_list_lock. ==================== Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260206-nbcon-v7-0-62bda69b1b41@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk/internal.h8
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk/nbcon.c16
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk/printk.c54
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.h5
4 files changed, 82 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk/internal.h b/kernel/printk/internal.h
index 5f5f626f4279..5fdea5682756 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/internal.h
+++ b/kernel/printk/internal.h
@@ -281,12 +281,20 @@ struct printk_buffers {
* nothing to output and this record should be skipped.
* @seq: The sequence number of the record used for @pbufs->outbuf.
* @dropped: The number of dropped records from reading @seq.
+ * @cpu: CPU on which the message was generated.
+ * @pid: PID of the task that generated the message
+ * @comm: Name of the task that generated the message.
*/
struct printk_message {
struct printk_buffers *pbufs;
unsigned int outbuf_len;
u64 seq;
unsigned long dropped;
+#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK_EXECUTION_CTX
+ int cpu;
+ pid_t pid;
+ char comm[TASK_COMM_LEN];
+#endif
};
bool printk_get_next_message(struct printk_message *pmsg, u64 seq,
diff --git a/kernel/printk/nbcon.c b/kernel/printk/nbcon.c
index 32fc12e53675..f6d22510fdc3 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/nbcon.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/nbcon.c
@@ -946,6 +946,20 @@ void nbcon_reacquire_nobuf(struct nbcon_write_context *wctxt)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nbcon_reacquire_nobuf);
+#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK_EXECUTION_CTX
+static void wctxt_load_execution_ctx(struct nbcon_write_context *wctxt,
+ struct printk_message *pmsg)
+{
+ wctxt->cpu = pmsg->cpu;
+ wctxt->pid = pmsg->pid;
+ memcpy(wctxt->comm, pmsg->comm, sizeof(wctxt->comm));
+ static_assert(sizeof(wctxt->comm) == sizeof(pmsg->comm));
+}
+#else
+static void wctxt_load_execution_ctx(struct nbcon_write_context *wctxt,
+ struct printk_message *pmsg) {}
+#endif
+
/**
* nbcon_emit_next_record - Emit a record in the acquired context
* @wctxt: The write context that will be handed to the write function
@@ -1048,6 +1062,8 @@ static bool nbcon_emit_next_record(struct nbcon_write_context *wctxt, bool use_a
/* Initialize the write context for driver callbacks. */
nbcon_write_context_set_buf(wctxt, &pmsg.pbufs->outbuf[0], pmsg.outbuf_len);
+ wctxt_load_execution_ctx(wctxt, &pmsg);
+
if (use_atomic)
con->write_atomic(con, wctxt);
else
diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index 1d765ad242b8..cf6b52861036 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -2131,11 +2131,39 @@ static inline void printk_delay(int level)
}
}
+#define CALLER_ID_MASK 0x80000000
+
static inline u32 printk_caller_id(void)
{
return in_task() ? task_pid_nr(current) :
- 0x80000000 + smp_processor_id();
+ CALLER_ID_MASK + smp_processor_id();
+}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK_EXECUTION_CTX
+/* Store the opposite info than caller_id. */
+static u32 printk_caller_id2(void)
+{
+ return !in_task() ? task_pid_nr(current) :
+ CALLER_ID_MASK + smp_processor_id();
+}
+
+static pid_t printk_info_get_pid(const struct printk_info *info)
+{
+ u32 caller_id = info->caller_id;
+ u32 caller_id2 = info->caller_id2;
+
+ return caller_id & CALLER_ID_MASK ? caller_id2 : caller_id;
+}
+
+static int printk_info_get_cpu(const struct printk_info *info)
+{
+ u32 caller_id = info->caller_id;
+ u32 caller_id2 = info->caller_id2;
+
+ return ((caller_id & CALLER_ID_MASK ?
+ caller_id : caller_id2) & ~CALLER_ID_MASK);
}
+#endif
/**
* printk_parse_prefix - Parse level and control flags.
@@ -2213,6 +2241,28 @@ static u16 printk_sprint(char *text, u16 size, int facility,
return text_len;
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK_EXECUTION_CTX
+static void printk_store_execution_ctx(struct printk_info *info)
+{
+ info->caller_id2 = printk_caller_id2();
+ get_task_comm(info->comm, current);
+}
+
+static void pmsg_load_execution_ctx(struct printk_message *pmsg,
+ const struct printk_info *info)
+{
+ pmsg->cpu = printk_info_get_cpu(info);
+ pmsg->pid = printk_info_get_pid(info);
+ memcpy(pmsg->comm, info->comm, sizeof(pmsg->comm));
+ static_assert(sizeof(pmsg->comm) == sizeof(info->comm));
+}
+#else
+static void printk_store_execution_ctx(struct printk_info *info) {}
+
+static void pmsg_load_execution_ctx(struct printk_message *pmsg,
+ const struct printk_info *info) {}
+#endif
+
__printf(4, 0)
int vprintk_store(int facility, int level,
const struct dev_printk_info *dev_info,
@@ -2320,6 +2370,7 @@ int vprintk_store(int facility, int level,
r.info->caller_id = caller_id;
if (dev_info)
memcpy(&r.info->dev_info, dev_info, sizeof(r.info->dev_info));
+ printk_store_execution_ctx(r.info);
/* A message without a trailing newline can be continued. */
if (!(flags & LOG_NEWLINE))
@@ -3002,6 +3053,7 @@ bool printk_get_next_message(struct printk_message *pmsg, u64 seq,
pmsg->seq = r.info->seq;
pmsg->dropped = r.info->seq - seq;
force_con = r.info->flags & LOG_FORCE_CON;
+ pmsg_load_execution_ctx(pmsg, r.info);
/*
* Skip records that are not forced to be printed on consoles and that
diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.h b/kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.h
index 4ef81349d9fb..1651b53ece34 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.h
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.h
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ struct printk_info {
u8 flags:5; /* internal record flags */
u8 level:3; /* syslog level */
u32 caller_id; /* thread id or processor id */
+#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK_EXECUTION_CTX
+ u32 caller_id2; /* caller_id complement */
+ /* name of the task that generated the message */
+ char comm[TASK_COMM_LEN];
+#endif
struct dev_printk_info dev_info;
};