linux.git/kernel/watchdog.c, branch v6.1.168

watchdog: move softlockup_panic back to early_param

2023-11-28T17:07:09+00:00

commit 8b793bcda61f6c3ed4f5b2ded7530ef6749580cb upstream.

Setting softlockup_panic from do_sysctl_args() causes it to take effect
later in boot.  The lockup detector is enabled before SMP is brought
online, but do_sysctl_args runs afterwards.  If a user wants to set
softlockup_panic on boot and have it trigger should a softlockup occur
during onlining of the non-boot processors, they could do this prior to
commit f117955a2255 ("kernel/watchdog.c: convert {soft/hard}lockup boot
parameters to sysctl aliases").  However, after this commit the value
of softlockup_panic is set too late to be of help for this type of
problem.  Restore the prior behavior.

Signed-off-by: Krister Johansen 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: f117955a2255 ("kernel/watchdog.c: convert {soft/hard}lockup boot parameters to sysctl aliases")
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'powerpc-6.0-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

2022-08-06T23:38:17+00:00

Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Add support for syscall stack randomization

 - Add support for atomic operations to the 32 & 64-bit BPF JIT

 - Full support for KASAN on 64-bit Book3E

 - Add a watchdog driver for the new PowerVM hypervisor watchdog

 - Add a number of new selftests for the Power10 PMU support

 - Add a driver for the PowerVM Platform KeyStore

 - Increase the NMI watchdog timeout during live partition migration, to
   avoid timeouts due to increased memory access latency

 - Add support for using the 'linux,pci-domain' device tree property for
   PCI domain assignment

 - Many other small features and fixes

Thanks to Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andy Shevchenko, Arnd Bergmann, Athira
Rajeev, Bagas Sanjaya, Christophe Leroy, Erhard Furtner, Fabiano Rosas,
Greg Kroah-Hartman, Greg Kurz, Haowen Bai, Hari Bathini, Jason A.
Donenfeld, Jason Wang, Jiang Jian, Joel Stanley, Juerg Haefliger, Kajol
Jain, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Madhavan Srinivasan, Masahiro Yamada,
Maxime Bizon, Miaoqian Lin, Murilo Opsfelder Araújo, Nathan Lynch,
Naveen N.  Rao, Nayna Jain, Nicholas Piggin, Ning Qiang, Pali Rohár,
Petr Mladek, Rashmica Gupta, Sachin Sant, Scott Cheloha, Segher
Boessenkool, Stephen Rothwell, Uwe Kleine-König, Wolfram Sang, Xiu
Jianfeng, and Zhouyi Zhou.

* tag 'powerpc-6.0-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (191 commits)
  powerpc/64e: Fix kexec build error
  EDAC/ppc_4xx: Include required of_irq header directly
  powerpc/pci: Fix PHB numbering when using opal-phbid
  powerpc/64: Init jump labels before parse_early_param()
  selftests/powerpc: Avoid GCC 12 uninitialised variable warning
  powerpc/cell/axon_msi: Fix refcount leak in setup_msi_msg_address
  powerpc/xive: Fix refcount leak in xive_get_max_prio
  powerpc/spufs: Fix refcount leak in spufs_init_isolated_loader
  powerpc/perf: Include caps feature for power10 DD1 version
  powerpc: add support for syscall stack randomization
  powerpc: Move system_call_exception() to syscall.c
  powerpc/powernv: rename remaining rng powernv_ functions to pnv_
  powerpc/powernv/kvm: Use darn for H_RANDOM on Power9
  powerpc/powernv: Avoid crashing if rng is NULL
  selftests/powerpc: Fix matrix multiply assist test
  powerpc/signal: Update comment for clarity
  powerpc: make facility_unavailable_exception 64s
  powerpc/platforms/83xx/suspend: Remove write-only global variable
  powerpc/platforms/83xx/suspend: Prevent unloading the driver
  powerpc/platforms/83xx/suspend: Reorder to get rid of a forward declaration
  ...

watchdog: export lockup_detector_reconfigure

2022-07-27T11:35:32+00:00

In some circumstances it may be interesting to reconfigure the watchdog
from inside the kernel.

On PowerPC, this may helpful before and after a LPAR migration (LPM) is
initiated, because it implies some latencies, watchdog, and especially NMI
watchdog is expected to be triggered during this operation. Reconfiguring
the watchdog with a factor, would prevent it to happen too frequently
during LPM.

Rename lockup_detector_reconfigure() as __lockup_detector_reconfigure() and
create a new function lockup_detector_reconfigure() calling
__lockup_detector_reconfigure() under the protection of watchdog_mutex.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour 
[mpe: Squash in build fix from Laurent, reported by Sachin]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220713154729.80789-3-ldufour@linux.ibm.com

Merge branch 'rework/kthreads' into for-linus

2022-06-23T17:11:28+00:00

Revert "printk: add functions to prefer direct printing"

2022-06-23T16:41:40+00:00

This reverts commit 2bb2b7b57f81255c13f4395ea911d6bdc70c9fe2.

The testing of 5.19 release candidates revealed missing synchronization
between early and regular console functionality.

It would be possible to start the console kthreads later as a workaround.
But it is clear that console lock serialized console drivers between
each other. It opens a big area of possible problems that were not
considered by people involved in the development and review.

printk() is crucial for debugging kernel issues and console output is
very important part of it. The number of consoles is huge and a proper
review would take some time. As a result it need to be reverted for 5.19.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YrBdjVwBOVgLfHyb@alley
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220623145157.21938-7-pmladek@suse.com

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-05-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2022-05-27T18:22:03+00:00

Pull misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "The non-MM patch queue for this merge window.

  Not a lot of material this cycle. Many singleton patches against
  various subsystems. Most notably some maintenance work in ocfs2
  and initramfs"

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-05-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (65 commits)
  kcov: update pos before writing pc in trace function
  ocfs2: dlmfs: fix error handling of user_dlm_destroy_lock
  ocfs2: dlmfs: don't clear USER_LOCK_ATTACHED when destroying lock
  fs/ntfs: remove redundant variable idx
  fat: remove time truncations in vfat_create/vfat_mkdir
  fat: report creation time in statx
  fat: ignore ctime updates, and keep ctime identical to mtime in memory
  fat: split fat_truncate_time() into separate functions
  MAINTAINERS: add Muchun as a memcg reviewer
  proc/sysctl: make protected_* world readable
  ia64: mca: drop redundant spinlock initialization
  tty: fix deadlock caused by calling printk() under tty_port->lock
  relay: remove redundant assignment to pointer buf
  fs/ntfs3: validate BOOT sectors_per_clusters
  lib/string_helpers: fix not adding strarray to device's resource list
  kernel/crash_core.c: remove redundant check of ck_cmdline
  ELF, uapi: fixup ELF_ST_TYPE definition
  ipc/mqueue: use get_tree_nodev() in mqueue_get_tree()
  ipc: update semtimedop() to use hrtimer
  ipc/sem: remove redundant assignments
  ...

lib/Kconfig.debug: remove more CONFIG_..._VALUE indirections

2022-04-29T21:38:00+00:00

As in "kernel/panic.c: remove CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE indirection",
use the IS_ENABLED() helper rather than having a hidden config option.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220321121301.1389693-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes 
Cc: Masahiro Yamada 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

printk: add functions to prefer direct printing

2022-04-22T19:30:58+00:00

Once kthread printing is available, console printing will no longer
occur in the context of the printk caller. However, there are some
special contexts where it is desirable for the printk caller to
directly print out kernel messages. Using pr_flush() to wait for
threaded printers is only possible if the caller is in a sleepable
context and the kthreads are active. That is not always the case.

Introduce printk_prefer_direct_enter() and printk_prefer_direct_exit()
functions to explicitly (and globally) activate/deactivate preferred
direct console printing. The term "direct console printing" refers to
printing to all enabled consoles from the context of the printk
caller. The term "prefer" is used because this type of printing is
only best effort. If the console is currently locked or other
printers are already actively printing, the printk caller will need
to rely on the other contexts to handle the printing.

This preferred direct printing is how all printing has been handled
until now (unless it was explicitly deferred).

When kthread printing is introduced, there may be some unanticipated
problems due to kthreads being unable to flush important messages.
In order to minimize such risks, preferred direct printing is
activated for the primary important messages when the system
experiences general types of major errors. These are:

 - emergency reboot/shutdown
 - cpu and rcu stalls
 - hard and soft lockups
 - hung tasks
 - warn
 - sysrq

Note that since kthread printing does not yet exist, no behavior
changes result from this commit. This is only implementing the
counter and marking the various places where preferred direct
printing is active.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness 
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek 
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney  # for RCU
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220421212250.565456-13-john.ogness@linutronix.de

sched/isolation: Use single feature type while referring to housekeeping cpumask

2022-02-16T14:57:55+00:00

Refer to housekeeping APIs using single feature types instead of flags.
This prevents from passing multiple isolation features at once to
housekeeping interfaces, which soon won't be possible anymore as each
isolation features will have their own cpumask.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli 
Reviewed-by: Phil Auld 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220207155910.527133-5-frederic@kernel.org

watchdog: move watchdog sysctl interface to watchdog.c

2022-01-22T06:33:34+00:00

The kernel/sysctl.c is a kitchen sink where everyone leaves their dirty
dishes, this makes it very difficult to maintain.

To help with this maintenance let's start by moving sysctls to places
where they actually belong.  The proc sysctl maintainers do not want to
know what sysctl knobs you wish to add for your own piece of code, we
just care about the core logic of proc sysctl.

So, move the watchdog syscl interface to watchdog.c.  Use
register_sysctl() to register the sysctl interface to avoid merge
conflicts when different features modify sysctl.c at the same time.

[mcgrof@kernel.org: justify the move on the commit log]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211123202347.818157-5-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni 
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain 
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook 
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Amir Goldstein 
Cc: Andy Shevchenko 
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Iurii Zaikin 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Paul Turner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Qing Wang 
Cc: Sebastian Reichel 
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky 
Cc: Stephen Kitt 
Cc: Tetsuo Handa 
Cc: Antti Palosaari 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Clemens Ladisch 
Cc: David Airlie 
Cc: Jani Nikula 
Cc: Joel Becker 
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen 
Cc: Joseph Qi 
Cc: Julia Lawall 
Cc: Lukas Middendorf 
Cc: Mark Fasheh 
Cc: Phillip Potter 
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi 
Cc: Douglas Gilbert 
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley 
Cc: Jani Nikula 
Cc: John Ogness 
Cc: Martin K. Petersen 
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" 
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds