From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49F6BC433F5 for ; Tue, 10 May 2022 19:40:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232868AbiEJTkt (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2022 15:40:49 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:50900 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229635AbiEJTko (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2022 15:40:44 -0400 Received: from galois.linutronix.de (Galois.linutronix.de [193.142.43.55]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3FE9111163; Tue, 10 May 2022 12:40:42 -0700 (PDT) From: John Ogness DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linutronix.de; s=2020; t=1652211640; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=OEDxfxfGB0zzvmyrmmb19QrPenmgyOx+wB7aMTpPY14=; b=s9qpTYE/3WJU4N3KJVSOdyb7xWHt1vkR4fCuQ5J8Zkt0v0hhGnmBmJdDRvMzx7U23g78AD 5x0GWGYOK6up5rJgLjlqAJ0oKWgxSuZArLqIZD7/93+m719asCNv2npDv0K4E3pzaf0TU1 QT3fxi7rAkTN0NzY7sIU3W6vHFJAKmFF1D5WFGFp25IVzQ1U2GLRWaAA15JzW4DMVMPiln C4PlGutDHid0b5MW+yz4Oad3VH/9G9wKQ7qYFzrw5pmS2R8UQ108RRuRC1xOe7QqhudZaN toooF05flVTdgRJ8Mw90Ti/8UtTs7R3lmx6LjRAd0TtWQNVsyqtk/eFe4jDJKA== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linutronix.de; s=2020e; t=1652211640; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=OEDxfxfGB0zzvmyrmmb19QrPenmgyOx+wB7aMTpPY14=; b=vLCouTuSreEprlIyaHBdxRuhj0utQMxldxJLsrUVX2CbalgS135YGbpGNA0WSY+j9euZdD GTFEAV97omDLmGAg== To: Steven Rostedt , Petr Mladek Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" , Evan Green , Andrew Morton , bhe@redhat.com, kexec@lists.infradead.org, LKML , bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org, linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, Linux PM , linux-remoteproc@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org, linux-um@lists.infradead.org, linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, rcu@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, x86@kernel.org, kernel-dev@igalia.com, kernel@gpiccoli.net, halves@canonical.com, fabiomirmar@gmail.com, alejandro.j.jimenez@oracle.com, Andy Shevchenko , Arnd Bergmann , Borislav Petkov , Jonathan Corbet , d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, dyoung@redhat.com, feng.tang@intel.com, Greg Kroah-Hartman , mikelley@microsoft.com, hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com, jgross@suse.com, Kees Cook , luto@kernel.org, mhiramat@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, paulmck@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, senozhatsky@chromium.org, Alan Stern , Thomas Gleixner , vgoyal@redhat.com, vkuznets@redhat.com, Will Deacon , Ard Biesheuvel , David Gow , Julius Werner Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/30] firmware: google: Convert regular spinlock into trylock on panic path In-Reply-To: <20220510132015.38923cb2@gandalf.local.home> References: <20220427224924.592546-1-gpiccoli@igalia.com> <20220427224924.592546-5-gpiccoli@igalia.com> <20220510132015.38923cb2@gandalf.local.home> Date: Tue, 10 May 2022 21:46:38 +0206 Message-ID: <87h75xkwg9.fsf@jogness.linutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org On 2022-05-10, Steven Rostedt wrote: >> As already mentioned in the other reply, panic() sometimes stops the >> other CPUs using NMI, for example, see kdump_nmi_shootdown_cpus(). >> >> Another situation is when the CPU using the lock ends in some >> infinite loop because something went wrong. The system is in >> an unpredictable state during panic(). >> >> I am not sure if this is possible with the code under gsmi_dev.lock >> but such things really happen during panic() in other subsystems. >> Using trylock in the panic() code path is a good practice. > > I believe that Peter Zijlstra had a special spin lock for NMIs or > early printk, where it would not block if the lock was held on the > same CPU. That is, if an NMI happened and paniced while this lock was > held on the same CPU, it would not deadlock. But it would block if the > lock was held on another CPU. Yes. And starting with 5.19 it will be carrying the name that _you_ came up with (cpu_sync): printk_cpu_sync_get_irqsave() printk_cpu_sync_put_irqrestore() John