1. 17 1月, 2016 3 次提交
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      printk: change recursion_bug type to bool · 06b031de
      Sergey Senozhatsky 提交于
      `recursion_bug' is used as recursion_bug toggle, so make it `bool'.
      Signed-off-by: NSergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      06b031de
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      printk: do cond_resched() between lines while outputting to consoles · 8d91f8b1
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      @console_may_schedule tracks whether console_sem was acquired through
      lock or trylock.  If the former, we're inside a sleepable context and
      console_conditional_schedule() performs cond_resched().  This allows
      console drivers which use console_lock for synchronization to yield
      while performing time-consuming operations such as scrolling.
      
      However, the actual console outputting is performed while holding
      irq-safe logbuf_lock, so console_unlock() clears @console_may_schedule
      before starting outputting lines.  Also, only a few drivers call
      console_conditional_schedule() to begin with.  This means that when a
      lot of lines need to be output by console_unlock(), for example on a
      console registration, the task doing console_unlock() may not yield for
      a long time on a non-preemptible kernel.
      
      If this happens with a slow console devices, for example a serial
      console, the outputting task may occupy the cpu for a very long time.
      Long enough to trigger softlockup and/or RCU stall warnings, which in
      turn pile more messages, sometimes enough to trigger the next cycle of
      warnings incapacitating the system.
      
      Fix it by making console_unlock() insert cond_resched() between lines if
      @console_may_schedule.
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Reported-by: NCalvin Owens <calvinowens@fb.com>
      Acked-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.com>
      Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
      Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@kernel.org>
      Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8d91f8b1
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      printk: only unregister boot consoles when necessary · 81cc26f2
      Thierry Reding 提交于
      Boot consoles are typically replaced by proper consoles during the boot
      process.  This can be problematic if the boot console data is part of
      the init section that is reclaimed late during boot.  If the proper
      console does not register before this point in time, the boot console
      will need to be removed (so that the freed memory is not accessed),
      leaving the system without output for some time.
      
      There are various reasons why the proper console may not register early
      enough, such as deferred probe or the driver being a loadable module.
      If that happens, there is some amount of time where no console messages
      are visible to the user, which in turn can mean that they won't see
      crashes or other potentially useful information.
      
      To avoid this situation, only remove the boot console when it resides in
      the init section.  Code exists to replace the boot console by the proper
      console when it is registered, keeping a seamless transition between the
      boot and proper consoles.
      Signed-off-by: NThierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
      Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      81cc26f2
  2. 07 11月, 2015 1 次提交
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      printk: prevent userland from spoofing kernel messages · 3824657c
      Mathias Krause 提交于
      The following statement of ABI/testing/dev-kmsg is not quite right:
      
         It is not possible to inject messages from userspace with the
         facility number LOG_KERN (0), to make sure that the origin of the
         messages can always be reliably determined.
      
      Userland actually can inject messages with a facility of 0 by abusing the
      fact that the facility is stored in a u8 data type.  By using a facility
      which is a multiple of 256 the assignment of msg->facility in log_store()
      implicitly truncates it to 0, i.e.  LOG_KERN, allowing users of /dev/kmsg
      to spoof kernel messages as shown below:
      
      The following call...
         # printf '<%d>Kernel panic - not syncing: beer empty\n' 0 >/dev/kmsg
      ...leads to the following log entry (dmesg -x | tail -n 1):
         user  :emerg : [   66.137758] Kernel panic - not syncing: beer empty
      
      However, this call...
         # printf '<%d>Kernel panic - not syncing: beer empty\n' 0x800 >/dev/kmsg
      ...leads to the slightly different log entry (note the kernel facility):
         kern  :emerg : [   74.177343] Kernel panic - not syncing: beer empty
      
      Fix that by limiting the user provided facility to 8 bit right from the
      beginning and catch the truncation early.
      
      Fixes: 7ff9554b ("printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-length...")
      Signed-off-by: NMathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
      Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
      Cc: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
      Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
      Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
      Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3824657c
  3. 22 10月, 2015 1 次提交
  4. 11 9月, 2015 1 次提交
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      kexec: split kexec_load syscall from kexec core code · 2965faa5
      Dave Young 提交于
      There are two kexec load syscalls, kexec_load another and kexec_file_load.
       kexec_file_load has been splited as kernel/kexec_file.c.  In this patch I
      split kexec_load syscall code to kernel/kexec.c.
      
      And add a new kconfig option KEXEC_CORE, so we can disable kexec_load and
      use kexec_file_load only, or vice verse.
      
      The original requirement is from Ted Ts'o, he want kexec kernel signature
      being checked with CONFIG_KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG enabled.  But kexec-tools use
      kexec_load syscall can bypass the checking.
      
      Vivek Goyal proposed to create a common kconfig option so user can compile
      in only one syscall for loading kexec kernel.  KEXEC/KEXEC_FILE selects
      KEXEC_CORE so that old config files still work.
      
      Because there's general code need CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE, so I updated all the
      architecture Kconfig with a new option KEXEC_CORE, and let KEXEC selects
      KEXEC_CORE in arch Kconfig.  Also updated general kernel code with to
      kexec_load syscall.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
      Signed-off-by: NDave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
      Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
      Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
      Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
      Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      2965faa5
  5. 01 7月, 2015 1 次提交
  6. 26 6月, 2015 5 次提交
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      check_syslog_permissions() cleanup · 3ea4331c
      Vasily Averin 提交于
      Patch fixes drawbacks in heck_syslog_permissions() noticed by AKPM:
      "from_file handling makes me cry.
      
      That's not a boolean - it's an enumerated value with two values
      currently defined.
      
      But the code in check_syslog_permissions() treats it as a boolean and
      also hardwires the knowledge that SYSLOG_FROM_PROC == 1 (or == `true`).
      
      And the name is wrong: it should be called from_proc to match
      SYSLOG_FROM_PROC."
      Signed-off-by: NVasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
      Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
      Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3ea4331c
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      security_syslog() should be called once only · d194e5d6
      Vasily Averin 提交于
      The final version of commit 637241a9 ("kmsg: honor dmesg_restrict
      sysctl on /dev/kmsg") lost few hooks, as result security_syslog() are
      processed incorrectly:
      
      - open of /dev/kmsg checks syslog access permissions by using
        check_syslog_permissions() where security_syslog() is not called if
        dmesg_restrict is set.
      
      - syslog syscall and /proc/kmsg calls do_syslog() where security_syslog
        can be executed twice (inside check_syslog_permissions() and then
        directly in do_syslog())
      
      With this patch security_syslog() is called once only in all
      syslog-related operations regardless of dmesg_restrict value.
      
      Fixes: 637241a9 ("kmsg: honor dmesg_restrict sysctl on /dev/kmsg")
      Signed-off-by: NVasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
      Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
      Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d194e5d6
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      printk: implement support for extended console drivers · 6fe29354
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      printk log_buf keeps various metadata for each message including its
      sequence number and timestamp.  The metadata is currently available only
      through /dev/kmsg and stripped out before passed onto console drivers.  We
      want this metadata to be available to console drivers too so that console
      consumers can get full information including the metadata and dictionary,
      which among other things can be used to detect whether messages got lost
      in transit.
      
      This patch implements support for extended console drivers.  Consoles can
      indicate that they want extended messages by setting the new CON_EXTENDED
      flag and they'll be fed messages formatted the same way as /dev/kmsg.
      
       "<level>,<sequnum>,<timestamp>,<contflag>;<message text>\n"
      
      If extended consoles exist, in-kernel fragment assembly is disabled.  This
      ensures that all messages emitted to consoles have full metadata including
      sequence number.  The contflag carries enough information to reassemble
      the fragments from the reader side trivially.  Note that this only affects
      /dev/kmsg.  Regular console and /proc/kmsg outputs are not affected by
      this change.
      
      * Extended message formatting for console drivers is enabled iff there
        are registered extended consoles.
      
      * Comment describing /dev/kmsg message format updated to add missing
        contflag field and help distinguishing variable from verbatim terms.
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
      Reviewed-by: NPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
      Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      6fe29354
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      printk: factor out message formatting from devkmsg_read() · 0a295e67
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      The extended message formatting used for /dev/kmsg will be used implement
      extended consoles.  Factor out msg_print_ext_header() and
      msg_print_ext_body() from devkmsg_read().
      
      This is pure restructuring.
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
      Reviewed-by: NPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
      Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      0a295e67
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      printk: guard the amount written per line by devkmsg_read() · d43ff430
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      This patchset updates netconsole so that it can emit messages with the
      same header as used in /dev/kmsg which gives neconsole receiver full log
      information which enables things like structured logging and detection
      of lost messages.
      
      This patch (of 7):
      
      devkmsg_read() uses 8k buffer and assumes that the formatted output
      message won't overrun which seems safe given LOG_LINE_MAX, the current use
      of dict and the escaping method being used; however, we're planning to use
      devkmsg formatting wider and accounting for the buffer size properly isn't
      that complicated.
      
      This patch defines CONSOLE_EXT_LOG_MAX as 8192 and updates devkmsg_read()
      so that it limits output accordingly.
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
      Reviewed-by: NPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
      Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d43ff430
  7. 26 3月, 2015 2 次提交
  8. 13 3月, 2015 1 次提交
  9. 07 3月, 2015 2 次提交
  10. 20 2月, 2015 1 次提交
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      kdb: Avoid printing KERN_ levels to consoles · f7d4ca8b
      Daniel Thompson 提交于
      Currently when kdb traps printk messages then the raw log level prefix
      (consisting of '\001' followed by a numeral) does not get stripped off
      before the message is issued to the various I/O handlers supported by
      kdb. This causes annoying visual noise as well as causing problems
      grepping for ^. It is also a change of behaviour compared to normal usage
      of printk() usage. For example <SysRq>-h ends up with different output to
      that of kdb's "sr h".
      
      This patch addresses the problem by stripping log levels from messages
      before they are issued to the I/O handlers. printk() which can also
      act as an i/o handler in some cases is special cased; if the caller
      provided a log level then the prefix will be preserved when sent to
      printk().
      
      The addition of non-printable characters to the output of kdb commands is a
      regression, albeit and extremely elderly one, introduced by commit
      04d2c8c8 ("printk: convert the format for KERN_<LEVEL> to a 2 byte
      pattern"). Note also that this patch does *not* restore the original
      behaviour from v3.5. Instead it makes printk() from within a kdb command
      display the message without any prefix (i.e. like printk() normally does).
      Signed-off-by: NDaniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
      Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
      f7d4ca8b
  11. 13 2月, 2015 1 次提交
  12. 11 12月, 2014 4 次提交
  13. 22 11月, 2014 1 次提交
  14. 20 11月, 2014 1 次提交
  15. 06 11月, 2014 1 次提交
  16. 14 10月, 2014 2 次提交
  17. 09 10月, 2014 1 次提交
  18. 11 9月, 2014 1 次提交
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      kernel/printk/printk.c: fix faulty logic in the case of recursive printk · 000a7d66
      Patrick Palka 提交于
      We shouldn't set text_len in the code path that detects printk recursion
      because text_len corresponds to the length of the string inside textbuf.
      A few lines down from the line
      
          text_len = strlen(recursion_msg);
      
      is the line
      
          text_len += vscnprintf(text + text_len, ...);
      
      So if printk detects recursion, it sets text_len to 29 (the length of
      recursion_msg) and logs an error.  Then the message supplied by the
      caller of printk is stored inside textbuf but offset by 29 bytes.  This
      means that the output of the recursive call to printk will contain 29
      bytes of garbage in front of it.
      
      This defect is caused by commit 458df9fd ("printk: remove separate
      printk_sched buffers and use printk buf instead") which turned the line
      
          text_len = vscnprintf(text, ...);
      
      into
      
          text_len += vscnprintf(text + text_len, ...);
      
      To fix this, this patch avoids setting text_len when logging the printk
      recursion error.  This patch also marks unlikely() the branch leading up
      to this code.
      
      Fixes: 458df9fd ("printk: remove separate printk_sched buffers and use printk buf instead")
      Signed-off-by: NPatrick Palka <patrick@parcs.ath.cx>
      Reviewed-by: NPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
      Reviewed-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Acked-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      000a7d66
  19. 27 8月, 2014 1 次提交
  20. 13 8月, 2014 1 次提交
  21. 07 8月, 2014 8 次提交
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      kernel/printk/printk.c: fix bool assignements · d25d9fec
      Neil Zhang 提交于
      Fix coccinelle warnings.
      Signed-off-by: NNeil Zhang <zhangwm@marvell.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d25d9fec
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      printk: enable interrupts before calling console_trylock_for_printk() · 5874af20
      Jan Kara 提交于
      We need interrupts disabled when calling console_trylock_for_printk()
      only so that cpu id we pass to can_use_console() remains valid (for
      other things console_sem provides all the exclusion we need and
      deadlocks on console_sem due to interrupts are impossible because we use
      down_trylock()).  However if we are rescheduled, we are guaranteed to
      run on an online cpu so we can easily just get the cpu id in
      can_use_console().
      
      We can lose a bit of performance when we enable interrupts in
      vprintk_emit() and then disable them again in console_unlock() but OTOH
      it can somewhat reduce interrupt latency caused by console_unlock().
      
      We differ from (reverted) commit 939f04be in that we avoid calling
      console_unlock() from vprintk_emit() with lockdep enabled as that has
      unveiled quite some bugs leading to system freezes during boot (e.g.
        https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/30/242,
        https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/28/521).
      Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Tested-by: NAndreas Bombe <aeb@debian.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5874af20
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      printk: miscellaneous cleanups · 249771b8
      Alex Elder 提交于
      Some small cleanups to kernel/printk/printk.c.  None of them should
      cause any change in behavior.
      
        - When CONFIG_PRINTK is defined, parenthesize the value of LOG_LINE_MAX.
        - When CONFIG_PRINTK is *not* defined, there is an extra LOG_LINE_MAX
          definition; delete it.
        - Pull an assignment out of a conditional expression in console_setup().
        - Use isdigit() in console_setup() rather than open coding it.
        - In update_console_cmdline(), drop a NUL-termination assignment;
          the strlcpy() call that precedes it guarantees it's not needed.
        - Simplify some logic in printk_timed_ratelimit().
      Signed-off-by: NAlex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
      Reviewed-by: NPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
      Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      249771b8
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      printk: use a clever macro · e99aa461
      Alex Elder 提交于
      Use the IS_ENABLED() macro rather than #ifdef blocks to set certain
      global values.
      Signed-off-by: NAlex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
      Acked-by: NBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
      Reviewed-by: NPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e99aa461
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      printk: fix some comments · 0b90fec3
      Alex Elder 提交于
      Fix a few comments that don't accurately describe their corresponding
      code.  It also fixes some minor typographical errors.
      Signed-off-by: NAlex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
      Reviewed-by: NPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
      Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      0b90fec3
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      printk: rename DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL · 42a9dc0b
      Alex Elder 提交于
      Commit a8fe19eb ("kernel/printk: use symbolic defines for console
      loglevels") makes consistent use of symbolic values for printk() log
      levels.
      
      The naming scheme used is different from the one used for
      DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL though.  Change that symbol name to be
      MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT for consistency.  And because the value of that
      symbol comes from a similarly-named config option, rename
      CONFIG_DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL as well.
      Signed-off-by: NAlex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
      Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
      Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      42a9dc0b
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      printk: tweak do_syslog() to match comments · e97e1267
      Alex Elder 提交于
      In do_syslog() there's a path used by kmsg_poll() and kmsg_read() that
      only needs to know whether there's any data available to read (and not
      its size).  These callers only check for non-zero return.  As a
      shortcut, do_syslog() returns the difference between what has been
      logged and what has been "seen."
      
      The comments say that the "count of records" should be returned but it's
      not.  Instead it returns (log_next_idx - syslog_idx), which is a
      difference between buffer offsets--and the result could be negative.
      
      The behavior is the same (it'll be zero or not in the same cases), but
      the count of records is more meaningful and it matches what the comments
      say.  So change the code to return that.
      Signed-off-by: NAlex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
      Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
      Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
      Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e97e1267
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      printk: allow increasing the ring buffer depending on the number of CPUs · 23b2899f
      Luis R. Rodriguez 提交于
      The default size of the ring buffer is too small for machines with a
      large amount of CPUs under heavy load.  What ends up happening when
      debugging is the ring buffer overlaps and chews up old messages making
      debugging impossible unless the size is passed as a kernel parameter.
      An idle system upon boot up will on average spew out only about one or
      two extra lines but where this really matters is on heavy load and that
      will vary widely depending on the system and environment.
      
      There are mechanisms to help increase the kernel ring buffer for tracing
      through debugfs, and those interfaces even allow growing the kernel ring
      buffer per CPU.  We also have a static value which can be passed upon
      boot.  Relying on debugfs however is not ideal for production, and
      relying on the value passed upon bootup is can only used *after* an
      issue has creeped up.  Instead of being reactive this adds a proactive
      measure which lets you scale the amount of contributions you'd expect to
      the kernel ring buffer under load by each CPU in the worst case
      scenario.
      
      We use num_possible_cpus() to avoid complexities which could be
      introduced by dynamically changing the ring buffer size at run time,
      num_possible_cpus() lets us use the upper limit on possible number of
      CPUs therefore avoiding having to deal with hotplugging CPUs on and off.
      This introduces the kernel configuration option LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
      which is used to specify the maximum amount of contributions to the
      kernel ring buffer in the worst case before the kernel ring buffer flips
      over, the size is specified as a power of 2.  The total amount of
      contributions made by each CPU must be greater than half of the default
      kernel ring buffer size (1 << LOG_BUF_SHIFT bytes) in order to trigger
      an increase upon bootup.  The kernel ring buffer is increased to the
      next power of two that would fit the required minimum kernel ring buffer
      size plus the additional CPU contribution.  For example if LOG_BUF_SHIFT
      is 18 (256 KB) you'd require at least 128 KB contributions by other CPUs
      in order to trigger an increase of the kernel ring buffer.  With a
      LOG_CPU_BUF_SHIFT of 12 (4 KB) you'd require at least anything over > 64
      possible CPUs to trigger an increase.  If you had 128 possible CPUs the
      amount of minimum required kernel ring buffer bumps to:
      
         ((1 << 18) + ((128 - 1) * (1 << 12))) / 1024 = 764 KB
      
      Since we require the ring buffer to be a power of two the new required
      size would be 1024 KB.
      
      This CPU contributions are ignored when the "log_buf_len" kernel
      parameter is used as it forces the exact size of the ring buffer to an
      expected power of two value.
      
      [pmladek@suse.cz: fix build]
      Signed-off-by: NLuis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
      Tested-by: NDavidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
      Tested-by: NPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
      Reviewed-by: NDavidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
      Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
      Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
      Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
      Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
      Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
      Cc: Arun KS <arunks.linux@gmail.com>
      Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
      Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
      Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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