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<title>Merge tag 'trace-v4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2018-04-10T18:27:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-10T18:27:30+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "New features:

   - Tom Zanussi's extended histogram work.

     This adds the synthetic events to have histograms from multiple
     event data Adds triggers "onmatch" and "onmax" to call the
     synthetic events Several updates to the histogram code from this

   - Allow way to nest ring buffer calls in the same context

   - Allow absolute time stamps in ring buffer

   - Rewrite of filter code parsing based on Al Viro's suggestions

   - Setting of trace_clock to global if TSC is unstable (on boot)

   - Better OOM handling when allocating large ring buffers

   - Added initcall tracepoints (consolidated initcall_debug code with
     them)

  And other various fixes and clean ups"

* tag 'trace-v4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (68 commits)
  init: Have initcall_debug still work without CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS
  init, tracing: Have printk come through the trace events for initcall_debug
  init, tracing: instrument security and console initcall trace events
  init, tracing: Add initcall trace events
  tracing: Add rcu dereference annotation for test func that touches filter-&gt;prog
  tracing: Add rcu dereference annotation for filter-&gt;prog
  tracing: Fixup logic inversion on setting trace_global_clock defaults
  tracing: Hide global trace clock from lockdep
  ring-buffer: Add set/clear_current_oom_origin() during allocations
  ring-buffer: Check if memory is available before allocation
  lockdep: Add print_irqtrace_events() to __warn
  vsprintf: Do not preprocess non-dereferenced pointers for bprintf (%px and %pK)
  tracing: Uninitialized variable in create_tracing_map_fields()
  tracing: Make sure variable string fields are NULL-terminated
  tracing: Add action comparisons when testing matching hist triggers
  tracing: Don't add flag strings when displaying variable references
  tracing: Fix display of hist trigger expressions containing timestamps
  ftrace: Drop a VLA in module_exists()
  tracing: Mention trace_clock=global when warning about unstable clocks
  tracing: Default to using trace_global_clock if sched_clock is unstable
  ...
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "New features:

   - Tom Zanussi's extended histogram work.

     This adds the synthetic events to have histograms from multiple
     event data Adds triggers "onmatch" and "onmax" to call the
     synthetic events Several updates to the histogram code from this

   - Allow way to nest ring buffer calls in the same context

   - Allow absolute time stamps in ring buffer

   - Rewrite of filter code parsing based on Al Viro's suggestions

   - Setting of trace_clock to global if TSC is unstable (on boot)

   - Better OOM handling when allocating large ring buffers

   - Added initcall tracepoints (consolidated initcall_debug code with
     them)

  And other various fixes and clean ups"

* tag 'trace-v4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (68 commits)
  init: Have initcall_debug still work without CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS
  init, tracing: Have printk come through the trace events for initcall_debug
  init, tracing: instrument security and console initcall trace events
  init, tracing: Add initcall trace events
  tracing: Add rcu dereference annotation for test func that touches filter-&gt;prog
  tracing: Add rcu dereference annotation for filter-&gt;prog
  tracing: Fixup logic inversion on setting trace_global_clock defaults
  tracing: Hide global trace clock from lockdep
  ring-buffer: Add set/clear_current_oom_origin() during allocations
  ring-buffer: Check if memory is available before allocation
  lockdep: Add print_irqtrace_events() to __warn
  vsprintf: Do not preprocess non-dereferenced pointers for bprintf (%px and %pK)
  tracing: Uninitialized variable in create_tracing_map_fields()
  tracing: Make sure variable string fields are NULL-terminated
  tracing: Add action comparisons when testing matching hist triggers
  tracing: Don't add flag strings when displaying variable references
  tracing: Fix display of hist trigger expressions containing timestamps
  ftrace: Drop a VLA in module_exists()
  tracing: Mention trace_clock=global when warning about unstable clocks
  tracing: Default to using trace_global_clock if sched_clock is unstable
  ...
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<entry>
<title>init, tracing: instrument security and console initcall trace events</title>
<updated>2018-04-06T12:56:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Abderrahmane Benbachir</name>
<email>abderrahmane.benbachir@polymtl.ca</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-23T00:33:28+00:00</published>
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Trace events have been added around the initcall functions defined in
init/main.c. But console and security have their own initcalls. This adds
the trace events associated for those initcall functions.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1521765208.19745.2.camel@polymtl.ca

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Abderrahmane Benbachir &lt;abderrahmane.benbachir@polymtl.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Trace events have been added around the initcall functions defined in
init/main.c. But console and security have their own initcalls. This adds
the trace events associated for those initcall functions.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1521765208.19745.2.camel@polymtl.ca

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Abderrahmane Benbachir &lt;abderrahmane.benbachir@polymtl.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk</title>
<updated>2018-04-06T02:53:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-06T02:53:30+00:00</published>
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Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Add info about loaded kdump kernel into the dump stack header

 - Move dump-stack related code from printk.c to lib/dump_stack.c

 - Write message about suspending consoles in KERN_INFO log level

* 'for-4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk:
  printk: change message to pr_info
  printk: move dump stack related code to lib/dump_stack.c
  print kdump kernel loaded status in stack dump
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Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Add info about loaded kdump kernel into the dump stack header

 - Move dump-stack related code from printk.c to lib/dump_stack.c

 - Write message about suspending consoles in KERN_INFO log level

* 'for-4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk:
  printk: change message to pr_info
  printk: move dump stack related code to lib/dump_stack.c
  print kdump kernel loaded status in stack dump
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<entry>
<title>printk: change message to pr_info</title>
<updated>2018-03-23T14:41:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tomeu Vizoso</name>
<email>tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-22T13:58:33+00:00</published>
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To allow userspace to prevent this message from appearing in the
console by changing the log priority.

This matches other informative messages that the power subsystem emits
when the system changes power states.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180322135833.16602-1-tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kernel@collabora.com
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tomeu Vizoso &lt;tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
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To allow userspace to prevent this message from appearing in the
console by changing the log priority.

This matches other informative messages that the power subsystem emits
when the system changes power states.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180322135833.16602-1-tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kernel@collabora.com
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tomeu Vizoso &lt;tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>printk: move dump stack related code to lib/dump_stack.c</title>
<updated>2018-03-15T12:25:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Young</name>
<email>dyoung@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-13T07:28:34+00:00</published>
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dump_stack related stuff should belong to lib/dump_stack.c thus move them
there. Also conditionally compile lib/dump_stack.c since dump_stack code
does not make sense if printk is disabled.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180213072834.GA24784@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com
To: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
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dump_stack related stuff should belong to lib/dump_stack.c thus move them
there. Also conditionally compile lib/dump_stack.c since dump_stack code
does not make sense if printk is disabled.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180213072834.GA24784@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com
To: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk</title>
<updated>2018-03-01T18:06:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-01T18:06:39+00:00</published>
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Pull printk fix from Petr Mladek:
 "Make sure that we wake up userspace loggers. This fixes a race
  introduced by the console waiter logic during this merge window"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk:
  printk: Wake klogd when passing console_lock owner
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Pull printk fix from Petr Mladek:
 "Make sure that we wake up userspace loggers. This fixes a race
  introduced by the console waiter logic during this merge window"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk:
  printk: Wake klogd when passing console_lock owner
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>printk: Wake klogd when passing console_lock owner</title>
<updated>2018-02-27T09:25:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Mladek</name>
<email>pmladek@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-26T14:44:20+00:00</published>
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wake_klogd is a local variable in console_unlock(). The information
is lost when the console_lock owner using the busy wait added by
the commit dbdda842fe96f8932 ("printk: Add console owner and waiter
logic to load balance console writes"). The following race is
possible:

CPU0				CPU1
console_unlock()

  for (;;)
     /* calling console for last message */

				printk()
				  log_store()
				    log_next_seq++;

     /* see new message */
     if (seen_seq != log_next_seq) {
	wake_klogd = true;
	seen_seq = log_next_seq;
     }

     console_lock_spinning_enable();

				  if (console_trylock_spinning())
				     /* spinning */

     if (console_lock_spinning_disable_and_check()) {
	printk_safe_exit_irqrestore(flags);
	return;

				  console_unlock()
				    if (seen_seq != log_next_seq) {
				    /* already seen */
				    /* nothing to do */

Result: Nobody would wakeup klogd.

One solution would be to make a global variable from wake_klogd.
But then we would need to manipulate it under a lock or so.

This patch wakes klogd also when console_lock is passed to the
spinning waiter. It looks like the right way to go. Also userspace
should have a chance to see and store any "flood" of messages.

Note that the very late klogd wake up was a historic solution.
It made sense on single CPU systems or when sys_syslog() operations
were synchronized using the big kernel lock like in v2.1.113.
But it is questionable these days.

Fixes: dbdda842fe96f8932 ("printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180226155734.dzwg3aovqnwtvkoy@pathway.suse.cz
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
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wake_klogd is a local variable in console_unlock(). The information
is lost when the console_lock owner using the busy wait added by
the commit dbdda842fe96f8932 ("printk: Add console owner and waiter
logic to load balance console writes"). The following race is
possible:

CPU0				CPU1
console_unlock()

  for (;;)
     /* calling console for last message */

				printk()
				  log_store()
				    log_next_seq++;

     /* see new message */
     if (seen_seq != log_next_seq) {
	wake_klogd = true;
	seen_seq = log_next_seq;
     }

     console_lock_spinning_enable();

				  if (console_trylock_spinning())
				     /* spinning */

     if (console_lock_spinning_disable_and_check()) {
	printk_safe_exit_irqrestore(flags);
	return;

				  console_unlock()
				    if (seen_seq != log_next_seq) {
				    /* already seen */
				    /* nothing to do */

Result: Nobody would wakeup klogd.

One solution would be to make a global variable from wake_klogd.
But then we would need to manipulate it under a lock or so.

This patch wakes klogd also when console_lock is passed to the
spinning waiter. It looks like the right way to go. Also userspace
should have a chance to see and store any "flood" of messages.

Note that the very late klogd wake up was a historic solution.
It made sense on single CPU systems or when sys_syslog() operations
were synchronized using the big kernel lock like in v2.1.113.
But it is questionable these days.

Fixes: dbdda842fe96f8932 ("printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180226155734.dzwg3aovqnwtvkoy@pathway.suse.cz
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: do bulk POLL* -&gt; EPOLL* replacement</title>
<updated>2018-02-11T22:34:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-11T22:34:03+00:00</published>
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This is the mindless scripted replacement of kernel use of POLL*
variables as described by Al, done by this script:

    for V in IN OUT PRI ERR RDNORM RDBAND WRNORM WRBAND HUP RDHUP NVAL MSG; do
        L=`git grep -l -w POLL$V | grep -v '^t' | grep -v /um/ | grep -v '^sa' | grep -v '/poll.h$'|grep -v '^D'`
        for f in $L; do sed -i "-es/^\([^\"]*\)\(\&lt;POLL$V\&gt;\)/\\1E\\2/" $f; done
    done

with de-mangling cleanups yet to come.

NOTE! On almost all architectures, the EPOLL* constants have the same
values as the POLL* constants do.  But they keyword here is "almost".
For various bad reasons they aren't the same, and epoll() doesn't
actually work quite correctly in some cases due to this on Sparc et al.

The next patch from Al will sort out the final differences, and we
should be all done.

Scripted-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This is the mindless scripted replacement of kernel use of POLL*
variables as described by Al, done by this script:

    for V in IN OUT PRI ERR RDNORM RDBAND WRNORM WRBAND HUP RDHUP NVAL MSG; do
        L=`git grep -l -w POLL$V | grep -v '^t' | grep -v /um/ | grep -v '^sa' | grep -v '/poll.h$'|grep -v '^D'`
        for f in $L; do sed -i "-es/^\([^\"]*\)\(\&lt;POLL$V\&gt;\)/\\1E\\2/" $f; done
    done

with de-mangling cleanups yet to come.

NOTE! On almost all architectures, the EPOLL* constants have the same
values as the POLL* constants do.  But they keyword here is "almost".
For various bad reasons they aren't the same, and epoll() doesn't
actually work quite correctly in some cases due to this on Sparc et al.

The next patch from Al will sort out the final differences, and we
should be all done.

Scripted-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>print kdump kernel loaded status in stack dump</title>
<updated>2018-02-08T13:47:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Young</name>
<email>dyoung@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-27T04:11:29+00:00</published>
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It is useful to print kdump kernel loaded status in dump_stack()
especially when panic happens so that we can differenciate
kdump kernel early hang and a normal panic in a bug report.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180127041129.GA29016@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com
To: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
To: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
To: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms+renesas@verge.net.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
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It is useful to print kdump kernel loaded status in dump_stack()
especially when panic happens so that we can differenciate
kdump kernel early hang and a normal panic in a bug report.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180127041129.GA29016@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com
To: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
To: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
To: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms+renesas@verge.net.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk</title>
<updated>2018-02-01T21:36:15+00:00</updated>
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<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2018-02-01T21:36:15+00:00</published>
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Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Add a console_msg_format command line option:

     The value "default" keeps the old "[time stamp] text\n" format. The
     value "syslog" allows to see the syslog-like "&lt;log
     level&gt;[timestamp] text" format.

     This feature was requested by people doing regression tests, for
     example, 0day robot. They want to have both filtered and full logs
     at hands.

 - Reduce the risk of softlockup:

     Pass the console owner in a busy loop.

     This is a new approach to the old problem. It was first proposed by
     Steven Rostedt on Kernel Summit 2017. It marks a context in which
     the console_lock owner calls console drivers and could not sleep.
     On the other side, printk() callers could detect this state and use
     a busy wait instead of a simple console_trylock(). Finally, the
     console_lock owner checks if there is a busy waiter at the end of
     the special context and eventually passes the console_lock to the
     waiter.

     The hand-off works surprisingly well and helps in many situations.
     Well, there is still a possibility of the softlockup, for example,
     when the flood of messages stops and the last owner still has too
     much to flush.

     There is increasing number of people having problems with
     printk-related softlockups. We might eventually need to get better
     solution. Anyway, this looks like a good start and promising
     direction.

 - Do not allow to schedule in console_unlock() called from printk():

     This reverts an older controversial commit. The reschedule helped
     to avoid softlockups. But it also slowed down the console output.
     This patch is obsoleted by the new console waiter logic described
     above. In fact, the reschedule made the hand-off less effective.

 - Deprecate "%pf" and "%pF" format specifier:

     It was needed on ia64, ppc64 and parisc64 to dereference function
     descriptors and show the real function address. It is done
     transparently by "%ps" and "pS" format specifier now.

     Sergey Senozhatsky found that all the function descriptors were in
     a special elf section and could be easily detected.

 - Remove printk_symbol() API:

     It has been obsoleted by "%pS" format specifier, and this change
     helped to remove few continuous lines and a less intuitive old API.

 - Remove redundant memsets:

     Sergey removed unnecessary memset when processing printk.devkmsg
     command line option.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk: (27 commits)
  printk: drop redundant devkmsg_log_str memsets
  printk: Never set console_may_schedule in console_trylock()
  printk: Hide console waiter logic into helpers
  printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes
  kallsyms: remove print_symbol() function
  checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning
  symbol lookup: introduce dereference_symbol_descriptor()
  parisc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  powerpc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  ia64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  sections: split dereference_function_descriptor()
  openrisc: Fix conflicting types for _exext and _stext
  lib: do not use print_symbol()
  irq debug: do not use print_symbol()
  sysfs: do not use print_symbol()
  drivers: do not use print_symbol()
  x86: do not use print_symbol()
  unicore32: do not use print_symbol()
  sh: do not use print_symbol()
  mn10300: do not use print_symbol()
  ...
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Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Add a console_msg_format command line option:

     The value "default" keeps the old "[time stamp] text\n" format. The
     value "syslog" allows to see the syslog-like "&lt;log
     level&gt;[timestamp] text" format.

     This feature was requested by people doing regression tests, for
     example, 0day robot. They want to have both filtered and full logs
     at hands.

 - Reduce the risk of softlockup:

     Pass the console owner in a busy loop.

     This is a new approach to the old problem. It was first proposed by
     Steven Rostedt on Kernel Summit 2017. It marks a context in which
     the console_lock owner calls console drivers and could not sleep.
     On the other side, printk() callers could detect this state and use
     a busy wait instead of a simple console_trylock(). Finally, the
     console_lock owner checks if there is a busy waiter at the end of
     the special context and eventually passes the console_lock to the
     waiter.

     The hand-off works surprisingly well and helps in many situations.
     Well, there is still a possibility of the softlockup, for example,
     when the flood of messages stops and the last owner still has too
     much to flush.

     There is increasing number of people having problems with
     printk-related softlockups. We might eventually need to get better
     solution. Anyway, this looks like a good start and promising
     direction.

 - Do not allow to schedule in console_unlock() called from printk():

     This reverts an older controversial commit. The reschedule helped
     to avoid softlockups. But it also slowed down the console output.
     This patch is obsoleted by the new console waiter logic described
     above. In fact, the reschedule made the hand-off less effective.

 - Deprecate "%pf" and "%pF" format specifier:

     It was needed on ia64, ppc64 and parisc64 to dereference function
     descriptors and show the real function address. It is done
     transparently by "%ps" and "pS" format specifier now.

     Sergey Senozhatsky found that all the function descriptors were in
     a special elf section and could be easily detected.

 - Remove printk_symbol() API:

     It has been obsoleted by "%pS" format specifier, and this change
     helped to remove few continuous lines and a less intuitive old API.

 - Remove redundant memsets:

     Sergey removed unnecessary memset when processing printk.devkmsg
     command line option.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk: (27 commits)
  printk: drop redundant devkmsg_log_str memsets
  printk: Never set console_may_schedule in console_trylock()
  printk: Hide console waiter logic into helpers
  printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes
  kallsyms: remove print_symbol() function
  checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning
  symbol lookup: introduce dereference_symbol_descriptor()
  parisc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  powerpc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  ia64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  sections: split dereference_function_descriptor()
  openrisc: Fix conflicting types for _exext and _stext
  lib: do not use print_symbol()
  irq debug: do not use print_symbol()
  sysfs: do not use print_symbol()
  drivers: do not use print_symbol()
  x86: do not use print_symbol()
  unicore32: do not use print_symbol()
  sh: do not use print_symbol()
  mn10300: do not use print_symbol()
  ...
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