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Commit 6116dea8 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Merge tag 'kgdb-5.8-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/danielt/linux

Pull kgdb fixes from Daniel Thompson:
 "The main change here is a fix for a number of unsafe interactions
  between kdb and the console system. The fixes are specific to kdb
  (pure kgdb debugging does not use the console system at all). On
  systems with an NMI then kdb, if it is enabled, must get messages to
  the user despite potentially running from some "difficult" calling
  contexts. These fixes avoid using the console system where we have
  been provided an alternative (safer) way to interact with the user
  and, if using the console system in unavoidable, use oops_in_progress
  for deadlock avoidance. These fixes also ensure kdb honours the
  console enable flag.

  Also included is a fix that wraps kgdb trap handling in an RCU read
  lock to avoids triggering diagnostic warnings. This is a wide lock
  scope but this is OK because kgdb is a stop-the-world debugger. When
  we stop the world we put all the CPUs into holding pens and this
  inhibits RCU update anyway"

* tag 'kgdb-5.8-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/danielt/linux:
  kgdb: Avoid suspicious RCU usage warning
  kdb: Switch to use safer dbg_io_ops over console APIs
  kdb: Make kdb_printf() console handling more robust
  kdb: Check status of console prior to invoking handlers
  kdb: Re-factor kdb_printf() message write code
parents 21d2f685 440ab9e1
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