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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>watchdog/perf: rename watchdog_hld.c to watchdog_perf.c</title>
<updated>2023-06-10T00:44:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Douglas Anderson</name>
<email>dianders@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-19T17:18:31+00:00</published>
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The code currently in "watchdog_hld.c" is for detecting hardlockups using
perf, as evidenced by the line in the Makefile that only compiles this
file if CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF is defined.  Rename the file to
prepare for the buddy hardlockup detector, which doesn't use perf.

It could be argued that the new name makes it less obvious that this is a
hardlockup detector.  While true, it's not hard to remember that the
"perf" detector is always a hardlockup detector and it's nice not to have
names that are too convoluted.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230519101840.v5.7.Ice803cb078d0e15fb2cbf49132f096ee2bd4199d@changeid
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai &lt;wens@csie.org&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;groeck@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Lecopzer Chen &lt;lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Masayoshi Mizuma &lt;msys.mizuma@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke &lt;mka@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Pingfan Liu &lt;kernelfans@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Ravi V. Shankar" &lt;ravi.v.shankar@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ricardo Neri &lt;ricardo.neri@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Boyd &lt;swboyd@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Sumit Garg &lt;sumit.garg@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Tzung-Bi Shih &lt;tzungbi@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The code currently in "watchdog_hld.c" is for detecting hardlockups using
perf, as evidenced by the line in the Makefile that only compiles this
file if CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF is defined.  Rename the file to
prepare for the buddy hardlockup detector, which doesn't use perf.

It could be argued that the new name makes it less obvious that this is a
hardlockup detector.  While true, it's not hard to remember that the
"perf" detector is always a hardlockup detector and it's nice not to have
names that are too convoluted.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230519101840.v5.7.Ice803cb078d0e15fb2cbf49132f096ee2bd4199d@changeid
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai &lt;wens@csie.org&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;groeck@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Lecopzer Chen &lt;lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Masayoshi Mizuma &lt;msys.mizuma@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke &lt;mka@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Pingfan Liu &lt;kernelfans@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Ravi V. Shankar" &lt;ravi.v.shankar@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ricardo Neri &lt;ricardo.neri@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Boyd &lt;swboyd@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Sumit Garg &lt;sumit.garg@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Tzung-Bi Shih &lt;tzungbi@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>watchdog/perf: ensure CPU-bound context when creating hardlockup detector event</title>
<updated>2023-06-10T00:44:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pingfan Liu</name>
<email>kernelfans@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-19T17:18:29+00:00</published>
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hardlockup_detector_event_create() should create perf_event on the current
CPU.  Preemption could not get disabled because
perf_event_create_kernel_counter() allocates memory.  Instead, the CPU
locality is achieved by processing the code in a per-CPU bound kthread.

Add a check to prevent mistakes when calling the code in another code
path.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230519101840.v5.5.I654063e53782b11d53e736a8ad4897ffd207406a@changeid
Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu &lt;kernelfans@gmail.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Lecopzer Chen &lt;lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lecopzer Chen &lt;lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai &lt;wens@csie.org&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;groeck@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Masayoshi Mizuma &lt;msys.mizuma@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke &lt;mka@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Ravi V. Shankar" &lt;ravi.v.shankar@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ricardo Neri &lt;ricardo.neri@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Boyd &lt;swboyd@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Sumit Garg &lt;sumit.garg@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Tzung-Bi Shih &lt;tzungbi@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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hardlockup_detector_event_create() should create perf_event on the current
CPU.  Preemption could not get disabled because
perf_event_create_kernel_counter() allocates memory.  Instead, the CPU
locality is achieved by processing the code in a per-CPU bound kthread.

Add a check to prevent mistakes when calling the code in another code
path.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230519101840.v5.5.I654063e53782b11d53e736a8ad4897ffd207406a@changeid
Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu &lt;kernelfans@gmail.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Lecopzer Chen &lt;lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lecopzer Chen &lt;lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai &lt;wens@csie.org&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;groeck@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Masayoshi Mizuma &lt;msys.mizuma@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke &lt;mka@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Ravi V. Shankar" &lt;ravi.v.shankar@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ricardo Neri &lt;ricardo.neri@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Boyd &lt;swboyd@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Sumit Garg &lt;sumit.garg@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Tzung-Bi Shih &lt;tzungbi@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>watchdog/perf: more properly prevent false positives with turbo modes</title>
<updated>2023-06-10T00:44:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Douglas Anderson</name>
<email>dianders@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-19T17:18:26+00:00</published>
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Currently, in the watchdog_overflow_callback() we first check to see if
the watchdog had been touched and _then_ we handle the workaround for
turbo mode.  This order should be reversed.

Specifically, "touching" the hardlockup detector's watchdog should avoid
lockups being detected for one period that should be roughly the same
regardless of whether we're running turbo or not.  That means that we
should do the extra accounting for turbo _before_ we look at (and clear)
the global indicating that we've been touched.

NOTE: this fix is made based on code inspection.  I am not aware of any
reports where the old code would have generated false positives.  That
being said, this order seems more correct and also makes it easier down
the line to share code with the "buddy" hardlockup detector.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230519101840.v5.2.I843b0d1de3e096ba111a179f3adb16d576bef5c7@changeid
Fixes: 7edaeb6841df ("kernel/watchdog: Prevent false positives with turbo modes")
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai &lt;wens@csie.org&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;groeck@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Lecopzer Chen &lt;lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Masayoshi Mizuma &lt;msys.mizuma@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke &lt;mka@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Pingfan Liu &lt;kernelfans@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Ravi V. Shankar" &lt;ravi.v.shankar@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ricardo Neri &lt;ricardo.neri@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Boyd &lt;swboyd@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Sumit Garg &lt;sumit.garg@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Tzung-Bi Shih &lt;tzungbi@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Currently, in the watchdog_overflow_callback() we first check to see if
the watchdog had been touched and _then_ we handle the workaround for
turbo mode.  This order should be reversed.

Specifically, "touching" the hardlockup detector's watchdog should avoid
lockups being detected for one period that should be roughly the same
regardless of whether we're running turbo or not.  That means that we
should do the extra accounting for turbo _before_ we look at (and clear)
the global indicating that we've been touched.

NOTE: this fix is made based on code inspection.  I am not aware of any
reports where the old code would have generated false positives.  That
being said, this order seems more correct and also makes it easier down
the line to share code with the "buddy" hardlockup detector.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230519101840.v5.2.I843b0d1de3e096ba111a179f3adb16d576bef5c7@changeid
Fixes: 7edaeb6841df ("kernel/watchdog: Prevent false positives with turbo modes")
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai &lt;wens@csie.org&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;groeck@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Lecopzer Chen &lt;lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Masayoshi Mizuma &lt;msys.mizuma@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke &lt;mka@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Pingfan Liu &lt;kernelfans@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Ravi V. Shankar" &lt;ravi.v.shankar@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ricardo Neri &lt;ricardo.neri@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Boyd &lt;swboyd@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Sumit Garg &lt;sumit.garg@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Tzung-Bi Shih &lt;tzungbi@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "printk: add functions to prefer direct printing"</title>
<updated>2022-06-23T16:41:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Mladek</name>
<email>pmladek@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-23T14:51:57+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 2bb2b7b57f81255c13f4395ea911d6bdc70c9fe2.

The testing of 5.19 release candidates revealed missing synchronization
between early and regular console functionality.

It would be possible to start the console kthreads later as a workaround.
But it is clear that console lock serialized console drivers between
each other. It opens a big area of possible problems that were not
considered by people involved in the development and review.

printk() is crucial for debugging kernel issues and console output is
very important part of it. The number of consoles is huge and a proper
review would take some time. As a result it need to be reverted for 5.19.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YrBdjVwBOVgLfHyb@alley
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220623145157.21938-7-pmladek@suse.com
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This reverts commit 2bb2b7b57f81255c13f4395ea911d6bdc70c9fe2.

The testing of 5.19 release candidates revealed missing synchronization
between early and regular console functionality.

It would be possible to start the console kthreads later as a workaround.
But it is clear that console lock serialized console drivers between
each other. It opens a big area of possible problems that were not
considered by people involved in the development and review.

printk() is crucial for debugging kernel issues and console output is
very important part of it. The number of consoles is huge and a proper
review would take some time. As a result it need to be reverted for 5.19.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YrBdjVwBOVgLfHyb@alley
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220623145157.21938-7-pmladek@suse.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>printk: add functions to prefer direct printing</title>
<updated>2022-04-22T19:30:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Ogness</name>
<email>john.ogness@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-21T21:22:47+00:00</published>
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Once kthread printing is available, console printing will no longer
occur in the context of the printk caller. However, there are some
special contexts where it is desirable for the printk caller to
directly print out kernel messages. Using pr_flush() to wait for
threaded printers is only possible if the caller is in a sleepable
context and the kthreads are active. That is not always the case.

Introduce printk_prefer_direct_enter() and printk_prefer_direct_exit()
functions to explicitly (and globally) activate/deactivate preferred
direct console printing. The term "direct console printing" refers to
printing to all enabled consoles from the context of the printk
caller. The term "prefer" is used because this type of printing is
only best effort. If the console is currently locked or other
printers are already actively printing, the printk caller will need
to rely on the other contexts to handle the printing.

This preferred direct printing is how all printing has been handled
until now (unless it was explicitly deferred).

When kthread printing is introduced, there may be some unanticipated
problems due to kthreads being unable to flush important messages.
In order to minimize such risks, preferred direct printing is
activated for the primary important messages when the system
experiences general types of major errors. These are:

 - emergency reboot/shutdown
 - cpu and rcu stalls
 - hard and soft lockups
 - hung tasks
 - warn
 - sysrq

Note that since kthread printing does not yet exist, no behavior
changes result from this commit. This is only implementing the
counter and marking the various places where preferred direct
printing is active.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt; # for RCU
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220421212250.565456-13-john.ogness@linutronix.de
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Once kthread printing is available, console printing will no longer
occur in the context of the printk caller. However, there are some
special contexts where it is desirable for the printk caller to
directly print out kernel messages. Using pr_flush() to wait for
threaded printers is only possible if the caller is in a sleepable
context and the kthreads are active. That is not always the case.

Introduce printk_prefer_direct_enter() and printk_prefer_direct_exit()
functions to explicitly (and globally) activate/deactivate preferred
direct console printing. The term "direct console printing" refers to
printing to all enabled consoles from the context of the printk
caller. The term "prefer" is used because this type of printing is
only best effort. If the console is currently locked or other
printers are already actively printing, the printk caller will need
to rely on the other contexts to handle the printing.

This preferred direct printing is how all printing has been handled
until now (unless it was explicitly deferred).

When kthread printing is introduced, there may be some unanticipated
problems due to kthreads being unable to flush important messages.
In order to minimize such risks, preferred direct printing is
activated for the primary important messages when the system
experiences general types of major errors. These are:

 - emergency reboot/shutdown
 - cpu and rcu stalls
 - hard and soft lockups
 - hung tasks
 - warn
 - sysrq

Note that since kthread printing does not yet exist, no behavior
changes result from this commit. This is only implementing the
counter and marking the various places where preferred direct
printing is active.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt; # for RCU
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220421212250.565456-13-john.ogness@linutronix.de
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel/watchdog_hld.c: hard lockup message should end with a newline</title>
<updated>2019-04-19T16:46:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-19T00:50:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8f4a8c12cafe54535f334a09be7ec7f236134764'/>
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Separate print_modules() and hard lockup error message.

Before the patch:

  NMI watchdog: Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 1Modules linked in: nls_cp437

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190412062557.2700-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Separate print_modules() and hard lockup error message.

Before the patch:

  NMI watchdog: Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 1Modules linked in: nls_cp437

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190412062557.2700-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>watchdog: Mark watchdog touch functions as notrace</title>
<updated>2018-08-30T10:56:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vincent Whitchurch</name>
<email>vincent.whitchurch@axis.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-21T15:25:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=cb9d7fd51d9fbb329d182423bd7b92d0f8cb0e01'/>
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<content type='text'>
Some architectures need to use stop_machine() to patch functions for
ftrace, and the assumption is that the stopped CPUs do not make function
calls to traceable functions when they are in the stopped state.

Commit ce4f06dcbb5d ("stop_machine: Touch_nmi_watchdog() after
MULTI_STOP_PREPARE") added calls to the watchdog touch functions from
the stopped CPUs and those functions lack notrace annotations.  This
leads to crashes when enabling/disabling ftrace on ARM kernels built
with the Thumb-2 instruction set.

Fix it by adding the necessary notrace annotations.

Fixes: ce4f06dcbb5d ("stop_machine: Touch_nmi_watchdog() after MULTI_STOP_PREPARE")
Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch &lt;vincent.whitchurch@axis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: tj@kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180821152507.18313-1-vincent.whitchurch@axis.com

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Some architectures need to use stop_machine() to patch functions for
ftrace, and the assumption is that the stopped CPUs do not make function
calls to traceable functions when they are in the stopped state.

Commit ce4f06dcbb5d ("stop_machine: Touch_nmi_watchdog() after
MULTI_STOP_PREPARE") added calls to the watchdog touch functions from
the stopped CPUs and those functions lack notrace annotations.  This
leads to crashes when enabling/disabling ftrace on ARM kernels built
with the Thumb-2 instruction set.

Fix it by adding the necessary notrace annotations.

Fixes: ce4f06dcbb5d ("stop_machine: Touch_nmi_watchdog() after MULTI_STOP_PREPARE")
Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch &lt;vincent.whitchurch@axis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: tj@kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180821152507.18313-1-vincent.whitchurch@axis.com

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>watchdog: Reduce message verbosity</title>
<updated>2018-08-03T10:19:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sinan Kaya</name>
<email>okaya@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-03T06:09:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1b6266ebe3da8198e9a02fbad77bbb56e2f7ce2e'/>
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Code is emitting the following error message during boot on systems
without PMU hardware support while probing NMI capability.

 NMI watchdog: Perf event create on CPU 0 failed with -2

This error is emitted as the perf subsystem returns -ENOENT due to lack of
PMUs in the system.

It is followed by the warning that NMI watchdog is disabled:

  NMI watchdog: Perf NMI watchdog permanently disabled

While NMI disabled information is useful for ordinary users, seeing a PERF
event create failed with error code -2 is not.

Reduce the message severity to debug so that if debugging is still possible
in case the error code returned by perf is required for analysis.

Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya &lt;okaya@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Don Zickus &lt;dzickus@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=599368
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180803060943.2643-1-okaya@kernel.org

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Code is emitting the following error message during boot on systems
without PMU hardware support while probing NMI capability.

 NMI watchdog: Perf event create on CPU 0 failed with -2

This error is emitted as the perf subsystem returns -ENOENT due to lack of
PMUs in the system.

It is followed by the warning that NMI watchdog is disabled:

  NMI watchdog: Perf NMI watchdog permanently disabled

While NMI disabled information is useful for ordinary users, seeing a PERF
event create failed with error code -2 is not.

Reduce the message severity to debug so that if debugging is still possible
in case the error code returned by perf is required for analysis.

Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya &lt;okaya@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Don Zickus &lt;dzickus@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=599368
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180803060943.2643-1-okaya@kernel.org

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'linus' into core/urgent, to pick up dependent commits</title>
<updated>2017-11-04T07:53:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-04T07:53:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=649e441f49d4bfb717e9467950891dc452f4e063'/>
<id>649e441f49d4bfb717e9467950891dc452f4e063</id>
<content type='text'>
We want to fix an objtool build warning that got introduced in the latest upstream kernel.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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We want to fix an objtool build warning that got introduced in the latest upstream kernel.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b24413180f5600bcb3bb70fbed5cf186b60864bd'/>
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<content type='text'>
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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