linux-stable.git/kernel/printk/printk.c, branch linux-rolling-lts

printk: Avoid irq_work for printk_deferred() on suspend

2026-01-02T11:57:09+00:00

commit 66e7c1e0ee08cfb6db64f8f3f6e5a3cc930145c8 upstream.

With commit ("printk: Avoid scheduling irq_work on suspend") the
implementation of printk_get_console_flush_type() was modified to
avoid offloading when irq_work should be blocked during suspend.
Since printk uses the returned flush type to determine what
flushing methods are used, this was thought to be sufficient for
avoiding irq_work usage during the suspend phase.

However, vprintk_emit() implements a hack to support
printk_deferred(). In this hack, the returned flush type is
adjusted to make sure no legacy direct printing occurs when
printk_deferred() was used.

Because of this hack, the legacy offloading flushing method can
still be used, causing irq_work to be queued when it should not
be.

Adjust the vprintk_emit() hack to also consider
@console_irqwork_blocked so that legacy offloading will not be
chosen when irq_work should be blocked.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87fra90xv4.fsf@jogness.linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: John Ogness 
Fixes: 26873e3e7f0c ("printk: Avoid scheduling irq_work on suspend")
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek 
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

printk: Allow printk_trigger_flush() to flush all types

2026-01-02T11:57:09+00:00

commit d01ff281bd9b1bfeac9ab98ec8a9ee41da900d5e upstream.

Currently printk_trigger_flush() only triggers legacy offloaded
flushing, even if that may not be the appropriate method to flush
for currently registered consoles. (The function predates the
NBCON consoles.)

Since commit 6690d6b52726 ("printk: Add helper for flush type
logic") there is printk_get_console_flush_type(), which also
considers NBCON consoles and reports all the methods of flushing
appropriate based on the system state and consoles available.

Update printk_trigger_flush() to use
printk_get_console_flush_type() to appropriately flush registered
consoles.

Suggested-by: Petr Mladek 
Signed-off-by: John Ogness 
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20251113160351.113031-2-john.ogness%40linutronix.de
Tested-by: Sherry Sun 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113160351.113031-2-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

printk: Avoid scheduling irq_work on suspend

2026-01-02T11:57:06+00:00

commit 26873e3e7f0cb26c45e6ad63656f9fe36b2aa31b upstream.

Allowing irq_work to be scheduled while trying to suspend has shown
to cause problems as some architectures interpret the pending
interrupts as a reason to not suspend. This became a problem for
printk() with the introduction of NBCON consoles. With every
printk() call, NBCON console printing kthreads are woken by queueing
irq_work. This means that irq_work continues to be queued due to
printk() calls late in the suspend procedure.

Avoid this problem by preventing printk() from queueing irq_work
once console suspending has begun. This applies to triggering NBCON
and legacy deferred printing as well as klogd waiters.

Since triggering of NBCON threaded printing relies on irq_work, the
pr_flush() within console_suspend_all() is used to perform the final
flushing before suspending consoles and blocking irq_work queueing.
NBCON consoles that are not suspended (due to the usage of the
"no_console_suspend" boot argument) transition to atomic flushing.

Introduce a new global variable @console_irqwork_blocked to flag
when irq_work queueing is to be avoided. The flag is used by
printk_get_console_flush_type() to avoid allowing deferred printing
and switch NBCON consoles to atomic flushing. It is also used by
vprintk_emit() to avoid klogd waking.

Add WARN_ON_ONCE(console_irqwork_blocked) to the irq_work queuing
functions to catch any code that attempts to queue printk irq_work
during the suspending/resuming procedure.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.13.x because no drivers in 6.12.x
Fixes: 6b93bb41f6ea ("printk: Add non-BKL (nbcon) console basic infrastructure")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/DB9PR04MB8429E7DDF2D93C2695DE401D92C4A@DB9PR04MB8429.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com
Signed-off-by: John Ogness 
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek 
Tested-by: Sherry Sun 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113160351.113031-3-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

panic: use angle-bracket include for panic.h

2025-09-14T00:32:54+00:00

Replace quoted includes of panic.h with `#include ` for
consistency across the kernel.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250829051312.33773-1-wangjinchao600@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jinchao Wang 
Reviewed-by: John Ogness 
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek 
Cc: Qianqiang Liu 
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

panic/printk: replace other_cpu_in_panic() with panic_on_other_cpu()

2025-09-14T00:32:52+00:00

The helper other_cpu_in_panic() duplicated logic already provided by
panic_on_other_cpu().

Remove other_cpu_in_panic() and update all users to call
panic_on_other_cpu() instead.

This removes redundant code and makes panic handling consistent.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250825022947.1596226-9-wangjinchao600@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jinchao Wang 
Cc: Anna Schumaker 
Cc: Baoquan He 
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" 
Cc: Dave Young 
Cc: Doug Anderson 
Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe 
Cc: Joanthan Cameron 
Cc: Joel Granados 
Cc: John Ogness 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Li Huafei 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Luo Gengkun 
Cc: Max Kellermann 
Cc: Nam Cao 
Cc: oushixiong 
Cc: Petr Mladek 
Cc: Qianqiang Liu 
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky 
Cc: Sohil Mehta 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer 
Cc: Thomas Zimemrmann 
Cc: Thorsten Blum 
Cc: Ville Syrjala 
Cc: Vivek Goyal 
Cc: Yicong Yang 
Cc: Yunhui Cui 
Cc: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

panic/printk: replace this_cpu_in_panic() with panic_on_this_cpu()

2025-09-14T00:32:52+00:00

The helper this_cpu_in_panic() duplicated logic already provided by
panic_on_this_cpu().

Remove this_cpu_in_panic() and switch all users to panic_on_this_cpu().

This simplifies the code and avoids having two helpers for the same check.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250825022947.1596226-8-wangjinchao600@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jinchao Wang 
Cc: Anna Schumaker 
Cc: Baoquan He 
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" 
Cc: Dave Young 
Cc: Doug Anderson 
Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe 
Cc: Joanthan Cameron 
Cc: Joel Granados 
Cc: John Ogness 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Li Huafei 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Luo Gengkun 
Cc: Max Kellermann 
Cc: Nam Cao 
Cc: oushixiong 
Cc: Petr Mladek 
Cc: Qianqiang Liu 
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky 
Cc: Sohil Mehta 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer 
Cc: Thomas Zimemrmann 
Cc: Thorsten Blum 
Cc: Ville Syrjala 
Cc: Vivek Goyal 
Cc: Yicong Yang 
Cc: Yunhui Cui 
Cc: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

panic: introduce helper functions for panic state

2025-09-14T00:32:51+00:00

Patch series "panic: introduce panic status function family", v2.

This series introduces a family of helper functions to manage panic state
and updates existing code to use them.

Before this series, panic state helpers were scattered and inconsistent. 
For example, panic_in_progress() was defined in printk/printk.c, not in
panic.c or panic.h.  As a result, developers had to look in unexpected
places to understand or re-use panic state logic.  Other checks were open-
coded, duplicating logic across panic, crash, and watchdog paths.

The new helpers centralize the functionality in panic.c/panic.h:
  - panic_try_start()
  - panic_reset()
  - panic_in_progress()
  - panic_on_this_cpu()
  - panic_on_other_cpu()

Patches 1–8 add the helpers and convert panic/crash and printk/nbcon
code to use them.

Patch 9 fixes a bug in the watchdog subsystem by skipping checks when a
panic is in progress, avoiding interference with the panic CPU.

Together, this makes panic state handling simpler, more discoverable, and
more robust.


This patch (of 9):

This patch introduces four new helper functions to abstract the management
of the panic_cpu variable.  These functions will be used in subsequent
patches to refactor existing code.

The direct use of panic_cpu can be error-prone and ambiguous, as it
requires manual checks to determine which CPU is handling the panic.  The
new helpers clarify intent:

panic_try_start():
Atomically sets the current CPU as the panicking CPU.

panic_reset():
Reset panic_cpu to PANIC_CPU_INVALID.

panic_in_progress():
Checks if a panic has been triggered.

panic_on_this_cpu():
Returns true if the current CPU is the panic originator.

panic_on_other_cpu():
Returns true if a panic is on another CPU.

This change lays the groundwork for improved code readability
and robustness in the panic handling subsystem.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250825022947.1596226-1-wangjinchao600@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250825022947.1596226-2-wangjinchao600@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jinchao Wang 
Cc: Anna Schumaker 
Cc: Baoquan He 
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" 
Cc: Dave Young 
Cc: Doug Anderson 
Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe 
Cc: Joanthan Cameron 
Cc: Joel Granados 
Cc: John Ogness 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Li Huafei 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Luo Gengkun 
Cc: Max Kellermann 
Cc: Nam Cao 
Cc: oushixiong 
Cc: Petr Mladek 
Cc: Qianqiang Liu 
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky 
Cc: Sohil Mehta 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer 
Cc: Thomas Zimemrmann 
Cc: Thorsten Blum 
Cc: Ville Syrjala 
Cc: Vivek Goyal 
Cc: Yicong Yang 
Cc: Yunhui Cui 
Cc: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) b
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

printk: Allow to use the printk kthread immediately even for 1st nbcon

2025-06-09T14:44:01+00:00

The kthreads for nbcon consoles are created by nbcon_alloc() at
the beginning of the console registration. But it currently works
only for the 2nd or later nbcon console because the code checks
@printk_kthreads_running.

The kthread for the 1st registered nbcon console is created at the very
end of register_console() by printk_kthreads_check_locked(). As a result,
the entire log is replayed synchronously when the "enabled" message
gets printed. It might block the boot for a long time with a slow serial
console.

Prevent the synchronous flush by creating the kthread even for the 1st
nbcon console when it is safe (kthreads ready and no boot consoles).

Also inform printk() to use the kthread by setting
@printk_kthreads_running. Note that the kthreads already must be
running when it is safe and this is not the 1st nbcon console.

Symmetrically, clear @printk_kthreads_running when the last nbcon
console was unregistered by nbcon_free(). This requires updating
@have_nbcon_console before nbcon_free() gets called.

Note that there is _no_ problem when the 1st nbcon console replaces boot
consoles. In this case, the kthread will be started at the end
of registration after the boot consoles are removed. But the console
does not reply the entire log buffer in this case. Note that
the flag CON_PRINTBUFFER is always cleared when the boot consoles are
removed and vice versa.

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250514173514.2117832-1-mcobb@thegoodpenguin.co.uk
Tested-by: Michael Cobb 
Reviewed-by: John Ogness 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250604142045.253301-1-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek

Merge tag 'printk-for-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux

2025-03-28T02:22:24+00:00

Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - New option "printk.debug_non_panic_cpus" allows to store printk
   messages from non-panic CPUs during panic. It might be useful when
   panic() fails. It is disabled by default because it increases the
   chance to see the messages printed before panic() and on the
   panic-CPU.

 - New build option "CONFIG_NULL_TTY_DEFAULT_CONSOLE" allows to build
   kernel without the virtual terminal support which prefers ttynull
   over serial console.

 - Do not unblank suspended consoles.

 - Some code clean up.

* tag 'printk-for-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux:
  printk/panic: Add option to allow non-panic CPUs to write to the ring buffer.
  printk: Add an option to allow ttynull to be a default console device
  printk: Check CON_SUSPEND when unblanking a console
  printk: Rename console_start to console_resume
  printk: Rename console_stop to console_suspend
  printk: Rename resume_console to console_resume_all
  printk: Rename suspend_console to console_suspend_all

Merge branch 'for-6.15-console-suspend-api-cleanup' into for-linus

2025-03-27T10:09:34+00:00