nmi_shootdown_cpus(), a subroutine of crash_kexec(), sends NMI IPI
to non-panic cpus to stop them while saving their register
information and doing some cleanups for crash dumping. So if a
non-panic cpus is infinitely looping in NMI context, we fail to
save its register information and lose the information from the
crash dump.
`Infinite loop in NMI context' can happen when panic on NMI happens
while another cpu has already been processing panic(). To save
registers in that case too, this patch does following two things:
1. Move the timing of `infinite loop in NMI context' (actually
done by panic_smp_self_stop()) outside of panic() to enable us to
refer pt_regs
2. call a callback of nmi_shootdown_cpus() directly to save
registers and do some cleanups after setting waiting_for_crash_ipi
which is used for counting down the number of cpus which handled
the callback
V4:
- Rewrite the patch description
V3:
- Newly introduced
Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez at hitachi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko at kernel.org>
---
arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c | 6 +++---
arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c | 11 +++++++++++
include/linux/kernel.h | 12 ++++++++++--
kernel/panic.c | 10 ++++++++++
kernel/watchdog.c | 5 +++--
5 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c b/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c
index 5131714..5e00de7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ void unregister_nmi_handler(unsigned int type, const char *name)
#endif
if (panic_on_unrecovered_nmi)
- nmi_panic("NMI: Not continuing");
+ nmi_panic(regs, "NMI: Not continuing");
pr_emerg("Dazed and confused, but trying to continue\n");
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ void unregister_nmi_handler(unsigned int type, const char *name)
show_regs(regs);
if (panic_on_io_nmi) {
- nmi_panic("NMI IOCK error: Not continuing");
+ nmi_panic(regs, "NMI IOCK error: Not continuing");
/*
* If we return from nmi_panic(), it means we have received
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ void unregister_nmi_handler(unsigned int type, const char *name)
pr_emerg("Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?\n");
if (unknown_nmi_panic || panic_on_unrecovered_nmi)
- nmi_panic("NMI: Not continuing");
+ nmi_panic(regs, "NMI: Not continuing");
pr_emerg("Dazed and confused, but trying to continue\n");
}
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
index 02693dd..d82259b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
@@ -718,6 +718,7 @@ void machine_crash_shutdown(struct pt_regs *regs)
static nmi_shootdown_cb shootdown_callback;
static atomic_t waiting_for_crash_ipi;
+static int crash_ipi_done;
static int crash_nmi_callback(unsigned int val, struct pt_regs *regs)
{
@@ -779,6 +780,7 @@ void nmi_shootdown_cpus(nmi_shootdown_cb callback)
wmb();
smp_send_nmi_allbutself();
+ crash_ipi_done = 1; /* Kick cpus looping in nmi context */
msecs = 1000; /* Wait at most a second for the other cpus to stop */
while ((atomic_read(&waiting_for_crash_ipi) > 0) && msecs) {
@@ -788,6 +790,15 @@ void nmi_shootdown_cpus(nmi_shootdown_cb callback)
/* Leave the nmi callback set */
}
+
+void nmi_panic_self_stop(struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+ while (crash_ipi_done == 0)
+ cpu_relax();
+
+ crash_nmi_callback(0, regs); /* Shouldn't return */
+}
+
#else /* !CONFIG_SMP */
void nmi_shootdown_cpus(nmi_shootdown_cb callback)
{
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 57c33da..9fe9961 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -255,6 +255,7 @@ static inline void might_fault(void) { }
__printf(1, 2)
void panic(const char *fmt, ...)
__noreturn __cold;
+void nmi_panic_self_stop(struct pt_regs *);
extern void oops_enter(void);
extern void oops_exit(void);
void print_oops_end_marker(void);
@@ -448,12 +449,19 @@ extern __scanf(2, 0)
/*
* A variant of panic() called from NMI context.
* If we've already panicked on this cpu, return from here.
+ * If another cpu already panicked, loop in nmi_panic_self_stop() which
+ * can provide architecture dependent code such as saving register states
+ * for crash dump.
*/
-#define nmi_panic(fmt, ...) \
+#define nmi_panic(regs, fmt, ...) \
do { \
+ int old_cpu; \
int this_cpu = raw_smp_processor_id(); \
- if (atomic_cmpxchg(&panic_cpu, -1, this_cpu) != this_cpu) \
+ old_cpu = atomic_cmpxchg(&panic_cpu, -1, this_cpu); \
+ if (old_cpu == -1) \
panic(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__); \
+ else if (old_cpu != this_cpu) \
+ nmi_panic_self_stop(regs); \
} while (0)
/*
diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index a105e67..cddbfe0 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -60,6 +60,16 @@ void __weak panic_smp_self_stop(void)
cpu_relax();
}
+/*
+ * Stop ourself in NMI context if another cpu has already panicked.
+ * Architecture code may override this to prepare for crash dumping
+ * (e.g. save register information).
+ */
+void __weak nmi_panic_self_stop(struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+ panic_smp_self_stop();
+}
+
atomic_t panic_cpu = ATOMIC_INIT(-1);
/**
diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index 00fbaa29..0074e5d 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -324,8 +324,9 @@ static void watchdog_overflow_callback(struct perf_event *event,
return;
if (hardlockup_panic)
- nmi_panic("Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu %d",
- this_cpu);
+ nmi_panic(regs,
+ "Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu %d",
+ this_cpu);
else
WARN(1, "Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu %d",
this_cpu);
