1. 16 6月, 2012 1 次提交
  2. 14 6月, 2012 3 次提交
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      pstore/platform: Disable automatic updates by default · 521f7288
      Anton Vorontsov 提交于
      Having automatic updates seems pointless for production system, and
      even dangerous and thus counter-productive:
      
      1. If we can mount pstore, or read files, we can as well read
         /proc/kmsg. So, there's little point in duplicating the
         functionality and present the same information but via another
         userland ABI;
      
      2. Expecting the kernel to behave sanely after oops/panic is naive.
         It might work, but you'd rather not try it. Screwed up kernel
         can do rather bad things, like recursive faults[1]; and pstore
         rather provoking bad things to happen. It uses:
      
         1. Timers (assumes sane interrupts state);
         2. Workqueues and mutexes (assumes scheduler in a sane state);
         3. kzalloc (a working slab allocator);
      
         That's too much for a dead kernel, so the debugging facility
         itself might just make debugging harder, which is not what
         we want.
      
      Maybe for non-oops message types it would make sense to re-enable
      automatic updates, but so far I don't see any use case for this.
      Even for tracing, it has its own run-time/normal ABI, so we're
      only interested in pstore upon next boot, to retrieve what has
      gone wrong with HW or SW.
      
      So, let's disable the updates by default.
      
      [1]
      BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fffffffffffffff8
      IP: [<ffffffff8104801b>] kthread_data+0xb/0x20
      [...]
      Process kworker/0:1 (pid: 14, threadinfo ffff8800072c0000, task ffff88000725b100)
      [...
      Call Trace:
       [<ffffffff81043710>] wq_worker_sleeping+0x10/0xa0
       [<ffffffff813687a8>] __schedule+0x568/0x7d0
       [<ffffffff8106c24d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
       [<ffffffff81087e22>] ? call_rcu_sched+0x12/0x20
       [<ffffffff8102b596>] ? release_task+0x156/0x2d0
       [<ffffffff8102b45e>] ? release_task+0x1e/0x2d0
       [<ffffffff8106c24d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
       [<ffffffff81368ac4>] schedule+0x24/0x70
       [<ffffffff8102cba8>] do_exit+0x1f8/0x370
       [<ffffffff810051e7>] oops_end+0x77/0xb0
       [<ffffffff8135c301>] no_context+0x1a6/0x1b5
       [<ffffffff8135c4de>] __bad_area_nosemaphore+0x1ce/0x1ed
       [<ffffffff81053156>] ? ttwu_queue+0xc6/0xe0
       [<ffffffff8135c50b>] bad_area_nosemaphore+0xe/0x10
       [<ffffffff8101fa47>] do_page_fault+0x2c7/0x450
       [<ffffffff8106e34b>] ? __lock_release+0x6b/0xe0
       [<ffffffff8106bf21>] ? mark_held_locks+0x61/0x140
       [<ffffffff810502fe>] ? __wake_up+0x4e/0x70
       [<ffffffff81185f7d>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_thunk+0x3a/0x3c
       [<ffffffff81158970>] ? pstore_register+0x120/0x120
       [<ffffffff8136a37f>] page_fault+0x1f/0x30
       [<ffffffff81158970>] ? pstore_register+0x120/0x120
       [<ffffffff81185ab8>] ? memcpy+0x68/0x110
       [<ffffffff8115875a>] ? pstore_get_records+0x3a/0x130
       [<ffffffff811590f4>] ? persistent_ram_copy_old+0x64/0x90
       [<ffffffff81158bf4>] ramoops_pstore_read+0x84/0x130
       [<ffffffff81158799>] pstore_get_records+0x79/0x130
       [<ffffffff81042536>] ? process_one_work+0x116/0x450
       [<ffffffff81158970>] ? pstore_register+0x120/0x120
       [<ffffffff8115897e>] pstore_dowork+0xe/0x10
       [<ffffffff81042594>] process_one_work+0x174/0x450
       [<ffffffff81042536>] ? process_one_work+0x116/0x450
       [<ffffffff81042e13>] worker_thread+0x123/0x2d0
       [<ffffffff81042cf0>] ? manage_workers.isra.28+0x120/0x120
       [<ffffffff81047d8e>] kthread+0x8e/0xa0
       [<ffffffff8136ba74>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
       [<ffffffff8136a199>] ? retint_restore_args+0xe/0xe
       [<ffffffff81047d00>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x70/0x70
       [<ffffffff8136ba70>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb
      Code: be e2 00 00 00 48 c7 c7 d1 2a 4e 81 e8 bf fb fd ff 48 8b 5d f0 4c 8b 65 f8 c9 c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 8b 87 08 02 00 00 55 48 89 e5 <48> 8b 40 f8 5d c3 66 66 66 66 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00
      RIP  [<ffffffff8104801b>] kthread_data+0xb/0x20
       RSP <ffff8800072c1888>
      CR2: fffffffffffffff8
      ---[ end trace 996a332dc399111d ]---
      Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!
      Signed-off-by: NAnton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      521f7288
    • A
      pstore/platform: Make automatic updates interval configurable · a3f5f075
      Anton Vorontsov 提交于
      There is no behavioural change, the default value is still 60 seconds.
      Signed-off-by: NAnton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
      Acked-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      a3f5f075
    • A
      pstore: Add console log messages support · f29e5956
      Anton Vorontsov 提交于
      Pstore doesn't support logging kernel messages in run-time, it only
      dumps dmesg when kernel oopses/panics. This makes pstore useless for
      debugging hangs caused by HW issues or improper use of HW (e.g.
      weird device inserted -> driver tried to write a reserved bits ->
      SoC hanged. In that case we don't get any messages in the pstore.
      
      Therefore, let's add a runtime logging support: PSTORE_TYPE_CONSOLE.
      Signed-off-by: NAnton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
      Acked-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Acked-by: NColin Cross <ccross@android.com>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      f29e5956
  3. 17 3月, 2012 1 次提交
  4. 19 11月, 2011 1 次提交
  5. 18 11月, 2011 2 次提交
    • K
      pstore: pass reason to backend write callback · 3d6d8d20
      Kees Cook 提交于
      This allows a backend to filter on the dmesg reason as well as the pstore
      reason. When ramoops is switched to pstore, this is needed since it has
      no interest in storing non-crash dmesg details.
      
      Drop pstore_write() as it has no users, and handling the "reason" here
      has no obviously correct value.
      Signed-off-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      3d6d8d20
    • K
      pstore: pass allocated memory region back to caller · f6f82851
      Kees Cook 提交于
      The buf_lock cannot be held while populating the inodes, so make the backend
      pass forward an allocated and filled buffer instead. This solves the following
      backtrace. The effect is that "buf" is only ever used to notify the backends
      that something was written to it, and shouldn't be used in the read path.
      
      To replace the buf_lock during the read path, isolate the open/read/close
      loop with a separate mutex to maintain serialized access to the backend.
      
      Note that is is up to the pstore backend to cope if the (*write)() path is
      called in the middle of the read path.
      
      [   59.691019] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at .../mm/slub.c:847
      [   59.691019] in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 1819, name: mount
      [   59.691019] Pid: 1819, comm: mount Not tainted 3.0.8 #1
      [   59.691019] Call Trace:
      [   59.691019]  [<810252d5>] __might_sleep+0xc3/0xca
      [   59.691019]  [<810a26e6>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x32/0xf3
      [   59.691019]  [<810b53ac>] ? __d_lookup_rcu+0x6f/0xf4
      [   59.691019]  [<810b68b1>] alloc_inode+0x2a/0x64
      [   59.691019]  [<810b6903>] new_inode+0x18/0x43
      [   59.691019]  [<81142447>] pstore_get_inode.isra.1+0x11/0x98
      [   59.691019]  [<81142623>] pstore_mkfile+0xae/0x26f
      [   59.691019]  [<810a2a66>] ? kmem_cache_free+0x19/0xb1
      [   59.691019]  [<8116c821>] ? ida_get_new_above+0x140/0x158
      [   59.691019]  [<811708ea>] ? __init_rwsem+0x1e/0x2c
      [   59.691019]  [<810b67e8>] ? inode_init_always+0x111/0x1b0
      [   59.691019]  [<8102127e>] ? should_resched+0xd/0x27
      [   59.691019]  [<8137977f>] ? _cond_resched+0xd/0x21
      [   59.691019]  [<81142abf>] pstore_get_records+0x52/0xa7
      [   59.691019]  [<8114254b>] pstore_fill_super+0x7d/0x91
      [   59.691019]  [<810a7ff5>] mount_single+0x46/0x82
      [   59.691019]  [<8114231a>] pstore_mount+0x15/0x17
      [   59.691019]  [<811424ce>] ? pstore_get_inode.isra.1+0x98/0x98
      [   59.691019]  [<810a8199>] mount_fs+0x5a/0x12d
      [   59.691019]  [<810b9174>] ? alloc_vfsmnt+0xa4/0x14a
      [   59.691019]  [<810b9474>] vfs_kern_mount+0x4f/0x7d
      [   59.691019]  [<810b9d7e>] do_kern_mount+0x34/0xb2
      [   59.691019]  [<810bb15f>] do_mount+0x5fc/0x64a
      [   59.691019]  [<810912fb>] ? strndup_user+0x2e/0x3f
      [   59.691019]  [<810bb3cb>] sys_mount+0x66/0x99
      [   59.691019]  [<8137b537>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26
      Signed-off-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      f6f82851
  6. 13 10月, 2011 1 次提交
  7. 17 8月, 2011 2 次提交
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      pstore: change mutex locking to spin_locks · abd4d558
      Don Zickus 提交于
      pstore was using mutex locking to protect read/write access to the
      backend plug-ins.  This causes problems when pstore is executed in
      an NMI context through panic() -> kmsg_dump().
      
      This patch changes the mutex to a spin_lock_irqsave then also checks to
      see if we are in an NMI context.  If we are in an NMI and can't get the
      lock, just print a message stating that and blow by the locking.
      
      All this is probably a hack around the bigger locking problem but it
      solves my current situation of trying to sleep in an NMI context.
      
      Tested by loading the lkdtm module and executing a HARDLOCKUP which
      will cause the machine to panic inside the nmi handler.
      Signed-off-by: NDon Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      abd4d558
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      pstore: defer inserting OOPS entries into pstore · 6dda9266
      Luck, Tony 提交于
      Life is simple for all the kernel terminating types of kmsg_dump
      call backs - pstore just saves the tail end of the console log. But
      for "oops" the situation is more complex - the kernel may carry on
      running (possibly for ever).  So we'd like to make the logged copy
      of the oops appear in the pstore filesystem - so that the user has
      a handle to clear the entry from the persistent backing store (if
      we don't, the store may fill with "oops" entries (that are also
      safely stashed in /var/log/messages) leaving no space for real
      errors.
      
      Current code calls pstore_mkfile() immediately. But this may
      not be safe. The oops could have happened with arbitrary locks
      held, or in interrupt or NMI context. So allocating memory and
      calling into generic filesystem code seems unwise.
      
      This patch defers making the entry appear. At the time
      of the oops, we merely set a flag "pstore_new_entry" noting that
      a new entry has been added. A periodic timer checks once a minute
      to see if the flag is set - if so, it schedules a work queue to
      rescan the backing store and make all new entries appear in the
      pstore filesystem.
      Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      6dda9266
  8. 23 7月, 2011 4 次提交
  9. 17 5月, 2011 2 次提交
  10. 23 3月, 2011 1 次提交
  11. 22 3月, 2011 1 次提交
  12. 29 12月, 2010 1 次提交
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      pstore: new filesystem interface to platform persistent storage · ca01d6dd
      Tony Luck 提交于
      Some platforms have a small amount of non-volatile storage that
      can be used to store information useful to diagnose the cause of
      a system crash.  This is the generic part of a file system interface
      that presents information from the crash as a series of files in
      /dev/pstore.  Once the information has been seen, the underlying
      storage is freed by deleting the files.
      Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      ca01d6dd