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Sumit Garg 5946d1f5b3 kdb: Switch to use safer dbg_io_ops over console APIs
In kgdb context, calling console handlers aren't safe due to locks used
in those handlers which could in turn lead to a deadlock. Although, using
oops_in_progress increases the chance to bypass locks in most console
handlers but it might not be sufficient enough in case a console uses
more locks (VT/TTY is good example).

Currently when a driver provides both polling I/O and a console then kdb
will output using the console. We can increase robustness by using the
currently active polling I/O driver (which should be lockless) instead
of the corresponding console. For several common cases (e.g. an
embedded system with a single serial port that is used both for console
output and debugger I/O) this will result in no console handler being
used.

In order to achieve this we need to reverse the order of preference to
use dbg_io_ops (uses polling I/O mode) over console APIs. So we just
store "struct console" that represents debugger I/O in dbg_io_ops and
while emitting kdb messages, skip console that matches dbg_io_ops
console in order to avoid duplicate messages. After this change,
"is_console" param becomes redundant and hence removed.

Suggested-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1591264879-25920-5-git-send-email-sumit.garg@linaro.org
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
2020-06-26 15:40:16 +01:00
arch Kbuild fixes for v5.8 2020-06-21 12:44:52 -07:00
block block-5.8-2020-06-19 2020-06-19 13:11:26 -07:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto crypto: drbg - always try to free Jitter RNG instance 2020-06-15 17:38:54 +10:00
Documentation Merge branch 'i2c/for-current' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux 2020-06-20 19:18:27 -07:00
drivers kdb: Switch to use safer dbg_io_ops over console APIs 2020-06-26 15:40:16 +01:00
fs A few fixes and small cleanups for tracing: 2020-06-20 13:17:47 -07:00
include kdb: Switch to use safer dbg_io_ops over console APIs 2020-06-26 15:40:16 +01:00
init Kbuild updates for v5.8 (2nd) 2020-06-13 13:29:16 -07:00
ipc mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
kernel kdb: Switch to use safer dbg_io_ops over console APIs 2020-06-26 15:40:16 +01:00
lib Kbuild fixes for v5.8 2020-06-21 12:44:52 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm powerpc fixes for 5.8 #3 2020-06-21 10:02:53 -07:00
net An important follow-up for replica reads support that went into -rc1 2020-06-19 12:25:04 -07:00
samples Kbuild fixes for v5.8 2020-06-21 12:44:52 -07:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v5.8 2020-06-21 12:44:52 -07:00
security selinux/stable-5.8 PR 20200621 2020-06-21 15:41:24 -07:00
sound ASoC: SOF: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array 2020-06-15 23:08:32 -05:00
tools A few fixes and small cleanups for tracing: 2020-06-20 13:17:47 -07:00
usr bpfilter: match bit size of bpfilter_umh to that of the kernel 2020-05-17 18:52:01 +09:00
virt MIPS: 2020-06-12 11:05:52 -07:00
.clang-format block: add bio_for_each_bvec_all() 2020-05-25 11:25:24 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore modpost: generate vmlinux.symvers and reuse it for the second modpost 2020-06-06 23:38:12 +09:00
.mailmap A fair amount of stuff this time around, dominated by yet another massive 2020-06-01 15:45:27 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS mailmap: change email for Ricardo Ribalda 2020-05-25 18:59:59 -06:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'i2c/for-current' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux 2020-06-20 19:18:27 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.8-rc2 2020-06-21 15:45:29 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.