linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] tty/sysrq: Make sysrq handler NMI aware

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Message-ID: <CAD=FV=Udf=MzyPa_o=vz=nc7ZVXBuuVNqw-VOSfrShuv0hN64Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 4 Mar 2022 10:05:45 -0800
From:   Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
To:     Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@...itsu.com>
Cc:     Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        SoC Team <soc@...nel.org>, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
        Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@...aro.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
        Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
        Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] tty/sysrq: Make sysrq handler NMI aware

Hi,

On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 10:45 PM Hitomi Hasegawa
<hasegawa-hitomi@...itsu.com> wrote:
>
>  void __handle_sysrq(int key, bool check_mask)
>  {
>         const struct sysrq_key_op *op_p;
> @@ -573,6 +606,10 @@ void __handle_sysrq(int key, bool check_mask)
>         int orig_suppress_printk;
>         int i;
>
> +       /* Skip sysrq handling if one already in progress */
> +       if (sysrq_nmi_key != -1)
> +               return;

Should this give a warning?

Also, can you remind me why this is safe if two CPUs both call
handle_sysrq() at the same time? Can't both of them make it past this?
That doesn't seem so great.


> @@ -596,7 +633,13 @@ void __handle_sysrq(int key, bool check_mask)
>                 if (!check_mask || sysrq_on_mask(op_p->enable_mask)) {
>                         pr_info("%s\n", op_p->action_msg);
>                         console_loglevel = orig_log_level;
> -                       op_p->handler(key);
> +
> +                       if (in_nmi() && !op_p->nmi_safe) {
> +                               sysrq_nmi_key = key;
> +                               irq_work_queue(&sysrq_irq_work);

It looks like irq_work_queue() returns false if it fails to queue.
Maybe it's worth checking and setting "sysrq_nmi_key" back to -1 if it
fails?

-Doug