linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V4] kdb: Fix the deadlock issue in KDB debugging.

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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 07:54:42 +0100
From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>
To: liu.yec@....com, daniel.thompson@...aro.org
Cc: dianders@...omium.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
 jason.wessel@...driver.com, kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4] kdb: Fix the deadlock issue in KDB debugging.

On 21. 03. 24, 12:50, liu.yec@....com wrote:
> From: LiuYe <liu.yeC@....com>
> 
> Currently, if CONFIG_KDB_KEYBOARD is enabled, then kgdboc will
> attempt to use schedule_work() to provoke a keyboard reset when
> transitioning out of the debugger and back to normal operation.
> This can cause deadlock because schedule_work() is not NMI-safe.
> 
> The stack trace below shows an example of the problem. In this
> case the master cpu is not running from NMI but it has parked
> the slave CPUs using an NMI and the parked CPUs is holding
> spinlocks needed by schedule_work().

I am missing here an explanation (perhaps because I cannot find any docs 
for irq_work) why irq_work works in this case.

And why you need to schedule another work in the irq_work and not do the 
job directly.

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs