Re: [RFC 2/5] serial: core: Add framework to allow NMI aware serial drivers

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On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 at 05:29, Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 5:11 AM Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Add NMI framework APIs in serial core which can be leveraged by serial
> > drivers to have NMI driven serial transfers. These APIs are kept under
> > CONFIG_CONSOLE_POLL as currently kgdb initializing uart in polling mode
> > is the only known user to enable NMI driven serial port.
> >
> > The general idea is to intercept RX characters in NMI context, if those
> > are specific to magic sysrq then allow corresponding handler to run in
> > NMI context. Otherwise defer all other RX and TX operations to IRQ work
> > queue in order to run those in normal interrupt context.
> >
> > Also, since magic sysrq entry APIs will need to be invoked from NMI
> > context, so make those APIs NMI safe via deferring NMI unsafe work to
> > IRQ work queue.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 120 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  include/linux/serial_core.h      |  67 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 185 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
> > index 57840cf..6342e90 100644
> > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
> > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
> > @@ -3181,8 +3181,14 @@ static bool uart_try_toggle_sysrq(struct uart_port *port, unsigned int ch)
> >                 return true;
> >         }
> >
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_CONSOLE_POLL
> > +       if (in_nmi())
> > +               irq_work_queue(&port->nmi_state.sysrq_toggle_work);
> > +       else
> > +               schedule_work(&sysrq_enable_work);
> > +#else
> >         schedule_work(&sysrq_enable_work);
> > -
> > +#endif
>
> It should be a very high bar to have #ifdefs inside functions.  I
> don't think this meets it.  Instead maybe something like this
> (untested and maybe slightly wrong syntax, but hopefully makes
> sense?):
>
> Outside the function:
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_CONSOLE_POLL
> #define queue_port_nmi_work(port, work_type)
> irq_work_queue(&port->nmi_state.work_type)
> #else
> #define queue_port_nmi_work(port, work_type)
> #endif
>
> ...and then:
>
> if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CONSOLE_POLL) && in_nmi())
>   queue_port_nmi_work(port, sysrq_toggle_work);
> else
>   schedule_work(&sysrq_enable_work);
>
> ---
>
> The whole double-hopping is really quite annoying.  I guess
> schedule_work() can't be called from NMI context but can be called
> from IRQ context?  So you need to first transition from NMI context to
> IRQ context and then go and schedule the work?  Almost feels like we
> should just fix schedule_work() to do this double-hop for you if
> called from NMI context.  Seems like you could even re-use the list
> pointers in the work_struct to keep the queue of people who need to be
> scheduled from the next irq_work?  Worst case it seems like you could
> add a schedule_work_nmi() that would do all the hoops for you.  ...but
> I also know very little about NMI so maybe I'm being naive.
>

Thanks for this suggestion and yes indeed we could make
schedule_work() NMI safe and in turn get rid of all this #ifdefs. Have
a look at below changes:

diff --git a/include/linux/workqueue.h b/include/linux/workqueue.h
index 26de0ca..1daf1b4 100644
--- a/include/linux/workqueue.h
+++ b/include/linux/workqueue.h
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include <linux/atomic.h>
 #include <linux/cpumask.h>
 #include <linux/rcupdate.h>
+#include <linux/irq_work.h>

 struct workqueue_struct;

@@ -106,6 +107,7 @@ struct work_struct {
 #ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
        struct lockdep_map lockdep_map;
 #endif
+       struct irq_work iw;
 };

 #define WORK_DATA_INIT()       ATOMIC_LONG_INIT((unsigned
long)WORK_STRUCT_NO_POOL)
@@ -478,6 +480,8 @@ extern void print_worker_info(const char *log_lvl,
struct task_struct *task);
 extern void show_workqueue_state(void);
 extern void wq_worker_comm(char *buf, size_t size, struct task_struct *task);

+extern void queue_work_nmi(struct irq_work *iw);
+
 /**
  * queue_work - queue work on a workqueue
  * @wq: workqueue to use
@@ -565,6 +569,11 @@ static inline bool schedule_work_on(int cpu,
struct work_struct *work)
  */
 static inline bool schedule_work(struct work_struct *work)
 {
+       if (in_nmi()) {
+               init_irq_work(&work->iw, queue_work_nmi);
+               return irq_work_queue(&work->iw);
+       }
+
        return queue_work(system_wq, work);
 }

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index c41c3c1..aa22883 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -1524,6 +1524,14 @@ bool queue_work_on(int cpu, struct workqueue_struct *wq,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(queue_work_on);

+void queue_work_nmi(struct irq_work *iw)
+{
+       struct work_struct *work = container_of(iw, struct work_struct, iw);
+
+       queue_work(system_wq, work);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(queue_work_nmi);
+
 /**
  * workqueue_select_cpu_near - Select a CPU based on NUMA node
  * @node: NUMA node ID that we want to select a CPU from

>
> >         port->sysrq = 0;
> >         return true;
> >  }
> > @@ -3273,12 +3279,122 @@ int uart_handle_break(struct uart_port *port)
> >                 port->sysrq = 0;
> >         }
> >
> > -       if (port->flags & UPF_SAK)
> > +       if (port->flags & UPF_SAK) {
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_CONSOLE_POLL
> > +               if (in_nmi())
> > +                       irq_work_queue(&port->nmi_state.sysrq_sak_work);
> > +               else
> > +                       do_SAK(state->port.tty);
> > +#else
> >                 do_SAK(state->port.tty);
> > +#endif
> > +       }
>
> Similar comment as above about avoiding #ifdef in functions.  NOTE: if
> you have something like schedule_work_nmi() I think you could just
> modify the do_SAK() function to call it and consider do_SAK() to be
> NMI safe.
>

See above.

>
> >         return 0;
> >  }
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(uart_handle_break);
> >
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_CONSOLE_POLL
> > +int uart_nmi_handle_char(struct uart_port *port, unsigned int status,
> > +                        unsigned int overrun, unsigned int ch,
> > +                        unsigned int flag)
> > +{
> > +       struct uart_nmi_rx_data rx_data;
> > +
> > +       if (!in_nmi())
> > +               return 0;
> > +
> > +       rx_data.status = status;
> > +       rx_data.overrun = overrun;
> > +       rx_data.ch = ch;
> > +       rx_data.flag = flag;
> > +
> > +       if (!kfifo_in(&port->nmi_state.rx_fifo, &rx_data, 1))
> > +               ++port->icount.buf_overrun;
> > +
> > +       return 1;
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(uart_nmi_handle_char);
> > +
> > +static void uart_nmi_rx_work(struct irq_work *rx_work)
> > +{
> > +       struct uart_nmi_state *nmi_state =
> > +           container_of(rx_work, struct uart_nmi_state, rx_work);
> > +       struct uart_port *port =
> > +           container_of(nmi_state, struct uart_port, nmi_state);
> > +       struct uart_nmi_rx_data rx_data;
> > +
> > +       /*
> > +        * In polling mode, serial device is initialized much prior to
> > +        * TTY port becoming active. This scenario is especially useful
> > +        * from debugging perspective such that magic sysrq or debugger
> > +        * entry would still be possible even when TTY port isn't
> > +        * active (consider a boot hang case or if a user hasn't opened
> > +        * the serial port). So we discard any other RX data apart from
> > +        * magic sysrq commands in case TTY port isn't active.
> > +        */
> > +       if (!port->state || !tty_port_active(&port->state->port)) {
> > +               kfifo_reset(&nmi_state->rx_fifo);
> > +               return;
> > +       }
> > +
> > +       spin_lock(&port->lock);
> > +       while (kfifo_out(&nmi_state->rx_fifo, &rx_data, 1))
> > +               uart_insert_char(port, rx_data.status, rx_data.overrun,
> > +                                rx_data.ch, rx_data.flag);
> > +       spin_unlock(&port->lock);
> > +
> > +       tty_flip_buffer_push(&port->state->port);
> > +}
> > +
> > +static void uart_nmi_tx_work(struct irq_work *tx_work)
> > +{
> > +       struct uart_nmi_state *nmi_state =
> > +           container_of(tx_work, struct uart_nmi_state, tx_work);
> > +       struct uart_port *port =
> > +           container_of(nmi_state, struct uart_port, nmi_state);
> > +
> > +       spin_lock(&port->lock);
> > +       if (nmi_state->tx_irq_callback)
> > +               nmi_state->tx_irq_callback(port);
> > +       spin_unlock(&port->lock);
> > +}
> > +
> > +static void uart_nmi_sak_work(struct irq_work *work)
> > +{
> > +       struct uart_nmi_state *nmi_state =
> > +           container_of(work, struct uart_nmi_state, sysrq_sak_work);
> > +       struct uart_port *port =
> > +           container_of(nmi_state, struct uart_port, nmi_state);
> > +
> > +       do_SAK(port->state->port.tty);
> > +}
> > +
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL
> > +static void uart_nmi_toggle_work(struct irq_work *work)
> > +{
> > +       schedule_work(&sysrq_enable_work);
> > +}
>
> Nit: weird that it's called "toggle" work but just wrapps "enable" work.
>

Okay, but this API will no longer be needed if we make schedule_work()
NMI safe (see above).

-Sumit

>
>
> > +#endif
> > +
> > +int uart_nmi_state_init(struct uart_port *port)
> > +{
> > +       int ret;
> > +
> > +       ret = kfifo_alloc(&port->nmi_state.rx_fifo, 256, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +       if (ret)
> > +               return ret;
> > +
> > +       init_irq_work(&port->nmi_state.rx_work, uart_nmi_rx_work);
> > +       init_irq_work(&port->nmi_state.tx_work, uart_nmi_tx_work);
> > +       init_irq_work(&port->nmi_state.sysrq_sak_work, uart_nmi_sak_work);
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL
> > +       init_irq_work(&port->nmi_state.sysrq_toggle_work, uart_nmi_toggle_work);
> > +#endif
> > +       return ret;
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(uart_nmi_state_init);
> > +#endif
> > +
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(uart_write_wakeup);
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(uart_register_driver);
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(uart_unregister_driver);
> > diff --git a/include/linux/serial_core.h b/include/linux/serial_core.h
> > index 9fd550e..84487a9 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/serial_core.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/serial_core.h
> > @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
> >  #include <linux/tty.h>
> >  #include <linux/mutex.h>
> >  #include <linux/sysrq.h>
> > +#include <linux/irq_work.h>
> > +#include <linux/kfifo.h>
> >  #include <uapi/linux/serial_core.h>
> >
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE
> > @@ -103,6 +105,28 @@ struct uart_icount {
> >  typedef unsigned int __bitwise upf_t;
> >  typedef unsigned int __bitwise upstat_t;
> >
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_CONSOLE_POLL
> > +struct uart_nmi_rx_data {
> > +       unsigned int            status;
> > +       unsigned int            overrun;
> > +       unsigned int            ch;
> > +       unsigned int            flag;
> > +};
> > +
> > +struct uart_nmi_state {
> > +       bool                    active;
> > +
> > +       struct irq_work         tx_work;
> > +       void                    (*tx_irq_callback)(struct uart_port *port);
> > +
> > +       struct irq_work         rx_work;
> > +       DECLARE_KFIFO_PTR(rx_fifo, struct uart_nmi_rx_data);
> > +
> > +       struct irq_work         sysrq_sak_work;
> > +       struct irq_work         sysrq_toggle_work;
> > +};
> > +#endif
> > +
> >  struct uart_port {
> >         spinlock_t              lock;                   /* port lock */
> >         unsigned long           iobase;                 /* in/out[bwl] */
> > @@ -255,6 +279,9 @@ struct uart_port {
> >         struct gpio_desc        *rs485_term_gpio;       /* enable RS485 bus termination */
> >         struct serial_iso7816   iso7816;
> >         void                    *private_data;          /* generic platform data pointer */
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_CONSOLE_POLL
> > +       struct uart_nmi_state   nmi_state;
> > +#endif
> >  };
> >
> >  static inline int serial_port_in(struct uart_port *up, int offset)
> > @@ -475,4 +502,44 @@ extern int uart_handle_break(struct uart_port *port);
> >                                          !((cflag) & CLOCAL))
> >
> >  int uart_get_rs485_mode(struct uart_port *port);
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * The following are helper functions for the NMI aware serial drivers.
> > + * Currently NMI support is only enabled under polling mode.
> > + */
> > +
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_CONSOLE_POLL
> > +int uart_nmi_state_init(struct uart_port *port);
> > +int uart_nmi_handle_char(struct uart_port *port, unsigned int status,
> > +                        unsigned int overrun, unsigned int ch,
> > +                        unsigned int flag);
> > +
> > +static inline bool uart_nmi_active(struct uart_port *port)
> > +{
> > +       return port->nmi_state.active;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static inline void uart_set_nmi_active(struct uart_port *port, bool val)
> > +{
> > +       port->nmi_state.active = val;
> > +}
> > +#else
> > +static inline int uart_nmi_handle_char(struct uart_port *port,
> > +                                      unsigned int status,
> > +                                      unsigned int overrun,
> > +                                      unsigned int ch, unsigned int flag)
> > +{
> > +       return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static inline bool uart_nmi_active(struct uart_port *port)
> > +{
> > +       return false;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static inline void uart_set_nmi_active(struct uart_port *port, bool val)
> > +{
> > +}
> > +#endif
> > +
> >  #endif /* LINUX_SERIAL_CORE_H */
> > --
> > 2.7.4
> >



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