printk/nbcon: Restore IRQ in atomic flush after each emitted record
The commit
d5d399efff6577 ("printk/nbcon: Release nbcon consoles ownership
in atomic flush after each emitted record") prevented stall of a CPU
which lost nbcon console ownership because another CPU entered
an emergency flush.
But there is still the problem that the CPU doing the emergency flush
might cause a stall on its own.
Let's go even further and restore IRQ in the atomic flush after
each emitted record.
It is not a complete solution. The interrupts and/or scheduling might
still be blocked when the emergency atomic flush was called with
IRQs and/or scheduling disabled. But it should remove the following
lockup:
mlx5_core 0000:03:00.0: Shutdown was called
kvm: exiting hardware virtualization
arm-smmu-v3 arm-smmu-v3.10.auto: CMD_SYNC timeout at 0x00000103 [hwprod 0x00000104, hwcons 0x00000102]
smp: csd: Detected non-responsive CSD lock (#1) on CPU#4, waiting
5000000032 ns for CPU#00 do_nothing (kernel/smp.c:1057)
smp: csd: CSD lock (#1) unresponsive.
[...]
Call trace:
pl011_console_write_atomic (./arch/arm64/include/asm/vdso/processor.h:12 drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c:2540) (P)
nbcon_emit_next_record (kernel/printk/nbcon.c:1049)
__nbcon_atomic_flush_pending_con (kernel/printk/nbcon.c:1517)
__nbcon_atomic_flush_pending.llvm.
15488114865160659019 (./arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative-macros.h:254 ./arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h:808 ./arch/arm64/include/asm/irqflags.h:192 kernel/printk/nbcon.c:1562 kernel/printk/nbcon.c:1612)
nbcon_atomic_flush_pending (kernel/printk/nbcon.c:1629)
printk_kthreads_shutdown (kernel/printk/printk.c:?)
syscore_shutdown (drivers/base/syscore.c:120)
kernel_kexec (kernel/kexec_core.c:1045)
__arm64_sys_reboot (kernel/reboot.c:794 kernel/reboot.c:722 kernel/reboot.c:722)
invoke_syscall (arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:50)
el0_svc_common.llvm.
14158405452757855239 (arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:?)
do_el0_svc (arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:152)
el0_svc (./arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative-macros.h:254 ./arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h:808 ./arch/arm64/include/asm/irqflags.h:73 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:169 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:182 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:749)
el0t_64_sync_handler (arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:820)
el0t_64_sync (arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:600)
In this case, nbcon_atomic_flush_pending() is called from
printk_kthreads_shutdown() with IRQs and scheduling enabled.
Note that __nbcon_atomic_flush_pending_con() is directly called also from
nbcon_device_release() where the disabled IRQs might break PREEMPT_RT
guarantees. But the atomic flush is called only in emergency or panic
situations where the latencies are irrelevant anyway.
An ultimate solution would be a touching of watchdogs. But it would hide
all problems. Let's do it later when anyone reports a stall which does
not have a better solution.
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/sqwajvt7utnt463tzxgwu2yctyn5m6bjwrslsnupfexeml6hkd@v6sqmpbu3vvu
Tested-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251212124520.244483-1-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>