tree 02d6b77bb16c30de128e641af768018755f51dfa
parent 93d102f094be9beab28e5afb656c188b16a3793b
author John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> 1626377637 +0206
committer Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> 1627304984 +0200

printk: remove NMI tracking

All NMI contexts are handled the same as the safe context: store the
message and defer printing. There is no need to have special NMI
context tracking for this. Using in_nmi() is enough.

There are several parts of the kernel that are manually calling into
the printk NMI context tracking in order to cause general printk
deferred printing:

    arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
    arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c
    kernel/trace/trace.c

For arm/kernel/smp.c and powerpc/kexec/crash.c, provide a new
function pair printk_deferred_enter/exit that explicitly achieves the
same objective.

For ftrace, remove the printk context manipulation completely. It was
added in commit 03fc7f9c99c1 ("printk/nmi: Prevent deadlock when
accessing the main log buffer in NMI"). The purpose was to enforce
storing messages directly into the ring buffer even in NMI context.
It really should have only modified the behavior in NMI context.
There is no need for a special behavior any longer. All messages are
always stored directly now. The console deferring is handled
transparently in vprintk().

Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
[pmladek@suse.com: Remove special handling in ftrace.c completely.
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210715193359.25946-5-john.ogness@linutronix.de