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Message-ID: <Z6tnQvIBlGnoGRN_@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:05:38 +0000
From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rt-devel@...ts.linux.dev,
	Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@...ux.ibm.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
	Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/9] arm: Rely on generic printing of preemption model.

On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 03:52:49PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2025-02-10 16:26:56 [+0000], Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > > This this applied, die("test") on ARM ends as:
> > > 
> > > [    1.595106] Kernel panic - not syncing: test
> > > [    1.596044] CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W 6.14.0-rc2-00009-gb80a798df08c-dirty #13 PREEMPT
> > > [    1.596768] Tainted: [W]=WARN
> > > [    1.596946] Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS unknown 02/02/2022
> > 
> > Hmm. I've no idea what you're testing, what you've quoted makes zero
> > sense to me.
> > 
> > First...
> > 
> > void die(const char *str, struct pt_regs *regs, int err)
> > 
> > is the die function prototype, so it takes a bit more than what you've
> > indicated.
> > 
> > Second, "Kernel panic" suggests that panic() has been called. However,
> > this only happens when die() is called (or more specifically
> > oops_end()) from either interrupt context (in which case we get
> > "Kernel panic - Fatal exception in interrupt") or if panic_on_oops
> > is set ("Kernel panic - Fatal exception").
> > 
> > I don't see a path which would result in
> > "Kernel panic - not syncing: test" to be printed from this path.
> > 
> > Since __die() does not call dump_stack(), we're not going to call
> > dump_stack_print_info() from __die(), so I don't think it's appropriate
> > to remove this information.
> 
> Okay. Let me try again with a stack overflow during boot. With the
> series:
> 
> | Freeing unused kernel image (initmem) memory: 2048K
> | 8<--- cut here ---
> | Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address df82a000 when write
> | [df82a000] *pgd=80000040007003, *pmd=41487003, *pte=00000000
> | Internal error: Oops: a07 [#1] SMP ARM
> | Modules linked in:
> | CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W          6.14.0-rc2-00009-gdca8d546a8a3-dirty #16 PREEMPT

Got it. Printed from __die() -> __show_regs() -> show_regs_print_info()
-> dump_stack_print_info().

Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>

Thanks!

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