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    • Kay Sievers's avatar
      printk: flush continuation lines immediately to console · 084681d1
      Kay Sievers authored 
      

Continuation lines are buffered internally, intended to merge the
chunked printk()s into a single record, and to isolate potentially
racy continuation users from usual terminated line users.

This though, has the effect that partial lines are not printed to
the console in the moment they are emitted. In case the kernel
crashes in the meantime, the potentially interesting printed
information would never reach the consoles.

Here we share the continuation buffer with the console copy logic,
and partial lines are always immediately flushed to the available
consoles. They are still buffered internally to improve the
readability and integrity of the messages and minimize the amount
of needed record headers to store.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Tested-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      084681d1
    • Michael Neuling's avatar
      powerpc/pseries: Fix software invalidate TCE · bc6dc752
      Michael Neuling authored 
      The following added support for powernv but broke pseries/BML:
 1f1616e8

 powerpc/powernv: Add TCE SW invalidation support

TCE_PCI_SW_INVAL was split into FREE and CREATE flags but the tests in
the pseries code were not updated to reflect this.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
cc: stable@kernel.org [v3.3+]
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      bc6dc752
    • Anton Blanchard's avatar
      powerpc: check_and_cede_processor() never cedes · 0b17ba72
      Anton Blanchard authored 
      Commit f948501b

 ("Make hard_irq_disable() actually hard-disable
interrupts") caused check_and_cede_processor to stop working.
->irq_happened will never be zero right after a hard_irq_disable
so the compiler removes the call to cede_processor completely.

The bug was introduced back in the lazy interrupt handling rework
of 3.4 but was hidden until recently because hard_irq_disable did
nothing.

This issue will eventually appear in 3.4 stable since the
hard_irq_disable fix is marked stable, so mark this one for stable
too.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      0b17ba72
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      powerpc/ftrace: Do not trace restore_interrupts() · 2d773aa4
      Steven Rostedt authored 
      

As I was adding code that affects all archs, I started testing function
tracer against PPC64 and found that it currently locks up with 3.4
kernel. I figured it was due to tracing a function that shouldn't be, so
I went through the following process to bisect to find the culprit:

 cat /debug/tracing/available_filter_functions > t
 num=`wc -l t`
 sed -ne "1,${num}p" t > t1
 let num=num+1
 sed -ne "${num},$p" t > t2
 cat t1 > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
 echo function /debug/tracing/current_tracer
 <failed? bisect t1, if not bisect t2>

It finally came down to this function: restore_interrupts()

I'm not sure why this locks up the system. It just seems to prevent
scheduling from occurring. Interrupts seem to still work, as I can ping
the box. But all user processes freeze.

When restore_interrupts() is not traced, function tracing works fine.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      2d773aa4