[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 1/4] powerpc/rtas: avoid device tree lookups in rtas_os_term()

Sasha Levin sashal at kernel.org
Wed Dec 28 07:36:06 AEDT 2022


From: Nathan Lynch <nathanl at linux.ibm.com>

[ Upstream commit ed2213bfb192ab51f09f12e9b49b5d482c6493f3 ]

rtas_os_term() is called during panic. Its behavior depends on a couple
of conditions in the /rtas node of the device tree, the traversal of
which entails locking and local IRQ state changes. If the kernel panics
while devtree_lock is held, rtas_os_term() as currently written could
hang.

Instead of discovering the relevant characteristics at panic time,
cache them in file-static variables at boot. Note the lookup for
"ibm,extended-os-term" is converted to of_property_read_bool() since it
is a boolean property, not an RTAS function token.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathanl at linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd at linux.ibm.com>
[mpe: Incorporate suggested change from Nick]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221118150751.469393-4-nathanl@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
index dd20e87f18f2..914d71879536 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
@@ -716,6 +716,7 @@ void __noreturn rtas_halt(void)
 
 /* Must be in the RMO region, so we place it here */
 static char rtas_os_term_buf[2048];
+static s32 ibm_os_term_token = RTAS_UNKNOWN_SERVICE;
 
 void rtas_os_term(char *str)
 {
@@ -727,14 +728,13 @@ void rtas_os_term(char *str)
 	 * this property may terminate the partition which we want to avoid
 	 * since it interferes with panic_timeout.
 	 */
-	if (RTAS_UNKNOWN_SERVICE == rtas_token("ibm,os-term") ||
-	    RTAS_UNKNOWN_SERVICE == rtas_token("ibm,extended-os-term"))
+	if (ibm_os_term_token == RTAS_UNKNOWN_SERVICE)
 		return;
 
 	snprintf(rtas_os_term_buf, 2048, "OS panic: %s", str);
 
 	do {
-		status = rtas_call(rtas_token("ibm,os-term"), 1, 1, NULL,
+		status = rtas_call(ibm_os_term_token, 1, 1, NULL,
 				   __pa(rtas_os_term_buf));
 	} while (rtas_busy_delay(status));
 
@@ -1331,6 +1331,13 @@ void __init rtas_initialize(void)
 	no_entry = of_property_read_u32(rtas.dev, "linux,rtas-entry", &entry);
 	rtas.entry = no_entry ? rtas.base : entry;
 
+	/*
+	 * Discover these now to avoid device tree lookups in the
+	 * panic path.
+	 */
+	if (of_property_read_bool(rtas.dev, "ibm,extended-os-term"))
+		ibm_os_term_token = rtas_token("ibm,os-term");
+
 	/* If RTAS was found, allocate the RMO buffer for it and look for
 	 * the stop-self token if any
 	 */
-- 
2.35.1



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