If panic on NMI happens just after panic() on the same CPU, panic()
is recursively called. As the result, it stalls after failing to
acquire panic_lock.
To avoid this problem, don't call panic() in NMI context if
we've already entered panic().
V4:
- Improve comments in io_check_error() and panic()
V3:
- Introduce nmi_panic() macro to reduce code duplication
- In the case of panic on NMI, don't return from NMI handlers
if another cpu already panicked
V2:
- Use atomic_cmpxchg() instead of current spin_trylock() to
exclude concurrent accesses to the panic routines
- Don't introduce no-lock version of panic()
Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
include/linux/kernel.h | 13 +++++++++++++
kernel/panic.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
kernel/watchdog.c | 2 +-
4 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c b/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c
index 697f90d..5131714 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)
- panic("NMI: Not continuing");
+ nmi_panic("NMI: Not continuing");
pr_emerg("Dazed and confused, but trying to continue\n");
@@ -255,8 +255,16 @@ void unregister_nmi_handler(unsigned int type, const char *name)
reason, smp_processor_id());
show_regs(regs);
- if (panic_on_io_nmi)
- panic("NMI IOCK error: Not continuing");
+ if (panic_on_io_nmi) {
+ nmi_panic("NMI IOCK error: Not continuing");
+
+ /*
+ * If we return from nmi_panic(), it means we have received
+ * NMI while processing panic(). So, simply return without
+ * a delay and re-enabling NMI.
+ */
+ return;
+ }
/* Re-enable the IOCK line, wait for a few seconds */
reason = (reason & NMI_REASON_CLEAR_MASK) | NMI_REASON_CLEAR_IOCHK;
@@ -297,7 +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)
- panic("NMI: Not continuing");
+ nmi_panic("NMI: Not continuing");
pr_emerg("Dazed and confused, but trying to continue\n");
}
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 5582410..57c33da 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -443,6 +443,19 @@ extern __scanf(2, 0)
extern bool crash_kexec_post_notifiers;
+extern atomic_t panic_cpu;
+
+/*
+ * A variant of panic() called from NMI context.
+ * If we've already panicked on this cpu, return from here.
+ */
+#define nmi_panic(fmt, ...) \
+ do { \
+ int this_cpu = raw_smp_processor_id(); \
+ if (atomic_cmpxchg(&panic_cpu, -1, this_cpu) != this_cpu) \
+ panic(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__); \
+ } while (0)
+
/*
* Only to be used by arch init code. If the user over-wrote the default
* CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT, honor it.
diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index 04e91ff..a105e67 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ void __weak panic_smp_self_stop(void)
cpu_relax();
}
+atomic_t panic_cpu = ATOMIC_INIT(-1);
+
/**
* panic - halt the system
* @fmt: The text string to print
@@ -70,17 +72,17 @@ void __weak panic_smp_self_stop(void)
*/
void panic(const char *fmt, ...)
{
- static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(panic_lock);
static char buf[1024];
va_list args;
long i, i_next = 0;
int state = 0;
+ int old_cpu, this_cpu;
/*
* Disable local interrupts. This will prevent panic_smp_self_stop
* from deadlocking the first cpu that invokes the panic, since
* there is nothing to prevent an interrupt handler (that runs
- * after the panic_lock is acquired) from invoking panic again.
+ * after setting panic_cpu) from invoking panic again.
*/
local_irq_disable();
@@ -93,8 +95,15 @@ void panic(const char *fmt, ...)
* multiple parallel invocations of panic, all other CPUs either
* stop themself or will wait until they are stopped by the 1st CPU
* with smp_send_stop().
+ *
+ * `old_cpu == -1' means this is the 1st CPU which comes here, so
+ * go ahead.
+ * `old_cpu == this_cpu' means we came from nmi_panic() which sets
+ * panic_cpu to this cpu. In this case, this is also the 1st CPU.
*/
- if (!spin_trylock(&panic_lock))
+ this_cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
+ old_cpu = atomic_cmpxchg(&panic_cpu, -1, this_cpu);
+ if (old_cpu != -1 && old_cpu != this_cpu)
panic_smp_self_stop();
console_verbose();
diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index 64ed1c3..00fbaa29 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ static void watchdog_overflow_callback(struct perf_event *event,
return;
if (hardlockup_panic)
- panic("Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu %d",
+ nmi_panic("Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu %d",
this_cpu);
else
WARN(1, "Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu %d",
--
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