Atomicity in KMS panic notifier

[David Herrmann]

Hi

On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> At Tue, 6 May 2014 15:32:21 +0200,
> David Herrmann wrote:
>> fbcon is called through the VT or fbdev layer, which is called by
>> bust_spinlocks(1) via either unblank_screen() or console_unblank().
>
> You mean bust_spinlocks(0), right?
>
> void __attribute__((weak)) bust_spinlocks(int yes)
> {
>         if (yes) {
>                 ++oops_in_progress;
>         } else {
> #ifdef CONFIG_VT
>                 unblank_screen();
> #endif
>                 console_unblank();
>                 if (--oops_in_progress == 0)
>                         wake_up_klogd();
>         }
> }
>
> bust_spinlocks(0) is called after the notifier chain, and it's almost
> at the end of panic().

Yes, it's called _after_ the panic-handlers but _before_
console_unlock() (see console_unblank() in printk.c). Therefore, we
call into set_config() before the serial drivers get the panic-message
(flushed via console_unlock()). If the serial drivers (or whatever you
use for debugging) register their own panic-handlers, then they're
fine of course.

Thanks
David