[PATCH] serial/pmac_zilog: Remove flawed mitigation for rx irq flood

Andy Shevchenko andy.shevchenko at gmail.com
Thu Apr 4 09:29:56 AEDT 2024


Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 03:11:33PM +1100, Finn Thain kirjoitti:
> The mitigation was intended to stop the irq completely. That might have
> been better than a hard lock-up but it turns out that you get a crash
> anyway if you're using pmac_zilog as a serial console.
> 
> That's because the pr_err() call in pmz_receive_chars() results in
> pmz_console_write() attempting to lock a spinlock already locked in
> pmz_interrupt(). With CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y, this produces a fatal
> BUG splat like the one below. (The spinlock at 0x62e140 is the one in
> struct uart_port.)
> 
> Even when it's not fatal, the serial port rx function ceases to work.
> Also, the iteration limit doesn't play nicely with QEMU. Please see
> bug report linked below.
> 
> A web search for reports of the error message "pmz: rx irq flood" didn't
> produce anything. So I don't think this code is needed any more. Remove it.

> [   14.560000] ttyPZ0: pmz: rx irq flood !
> [   14.560000] BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, swapper/0
> [   14.560000]  lock: 0x62e140, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: swapper/0, .owner_cpu: 0
> [   14.560000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.8.0-mac-dbg-preempt-00004-g4143b7b9144a #1
> [   14.560000] Stack from 0059bcc4:
> [   14.560000]         0059bcc4 0056316f 0056316f 00002700 004b6444 0059bce4 004ad8c6 0056316f
> [   14.560000]         0059bd10 004a6546 00556759 0062e140 dead4ead 0059f892 00000000 00000000
> [   14.560000]         0062e140 0059bde8 005c03d0 0059bd24 0004daf6 0062e140 005567bf 0062e140
> [   14.560000]         0059bd34 004b64c2 0062e140 00000001 0059bd50 002e15ea 0062e140 00000001
> [   14.560000]         0059bde7 0059bde8 005c03d0 0059bdac 0005124e 005c03d0 005cdc00 0000002b
> [   14.560000]         005a3caa 005a3caa 00000000 0059bde8 0004ff00 0059be8b 00038200 000529ba
> [   14.560000] Call Trace: [<00002700>] ret_from_kernel_thread+0xc/0x14
> [   14.560000]  [<004b6444>] _raw_spin_lock+0x0/0x28
> [   14.560000]  [<004ad8c6>] dump_stack+0x10/0x16
> [   14.560000]  [<004a6546>] spin_dump+0x6e/0x7c
> [   14.560000]  [<0004daf6>] do_raw_spin_lock+0x9c/0xa6
> [   14.560000]  [<004b64c2>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x2a/0x34
> [   14.560000]  [<002e15ea>] pmz_console_write+0x32/0x9a
> [   14.560000]  [<0005124e>] console_flush_all+0x112/0x3a2
> [   14.560000]  [<0004ff00>] console_trylock+0x0/0x7a
> [   14.560000]  [<00038200>] parameq+0x48/0x6e
> [   14.560000]  [<000529ba>] __printk_safe_enter+0x0/0x36
> [   14.560000]  [<0005113c>] console_flush_all+0x0/0x3a2
> [   14.560000]  [<000542c4>] prb_read_valid+0x0/0x1a
> [   14.560000]  [<004b65a4>] _raw_spin_unlock+0x0/0x38
> [   14.560000]  [<0005151e>] console_unlock+0x40/0xb8
> [   14.560000]  [<00038200>] parameq+0x48/0x6e
> [   14.560000]  [<002c778c>] __tty_insert_flip_string_flags+0x0/0x14e
> [   14.560000]  [<00051798>] vprintk_emit+0x156/0x238
> [   14.560000]  [<00051894>] vprintk_default+0x1a/0x1e
> [   14.560000]  [<000529a8>] vprintk+0x74/0x86
> [   14.560000]  [<004a6596>] _printk+0x12/0x16
> [   14.560000]  [<002e23be>] pmz_receive_chars+0x1cc/0x394
> [   14.560000]  [<004b6444>] _raw_spin_lock+0x0/0x28
> [   14.560000]  [<00038226>] parse_args+0x0/0x3a6
> [   14.560000]  [<004b6466>] _raw_spin_lock+0x22/0x28
> [   14.560000]  [<002e26b4>] pmz_interrupt+0x12e/0x1e0
> [   14.560000]  [<00048680>] arch_cpu_idle_enter+0x0/0x8
> [   14.560000]  [<00054ebc>] __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x24/0x106
> [   14.560000]  [<004ae576>] default_idle_call+0x0/0x46
> [   14.560000]  [<00055020>] handle_irq_event+0x30/0x90
> [   14.560000]  [<00058320>] handle_simple_irq+0x5e/0xc0
> [   14.560000]  [<00048688>] arch_cpu_idle_exit+0x0/0x8
> [   14.560000]  [<00054800>] generic_handle_irq+0x3c/0x4a
> [   14.560000]  [<00002978>] do_IRQ+0x24/0x3a
> [   14.560000]  [<004ae508>] cpu_idle_poll.isra.0+0x0/0x6e
> [   14.560000]  [<00002874>] auto_irqhandler_fixup+0x4/0xc
> [   14.560000]  [<004ae508>] cpu_idle_poll.isra.0+0x0/0x6e
> [   14.560000]  [<004ae576>] default_idle_call+0x0/0x46
> [   14.560000]  [<004ae598>] default_idle_call+0x22/0x46
> [   14.560000]  [<00048710>] do_idle+0x6a/0xf0
> [   14.560000]  [<000486a6>] do_idle+0x0/0xf0
> [   14.560000]  [<000367d2>] find_task_by_pid_ns+0x0/0x2a
> [   14.560000]  [<0005d064>] __rcu_read_lock+0x0/0x12
> [   14.560000]  [<00048a5a>] cpu_startup_entry+0x18/0x1c
> [   14.560000]  [<00063a06>] __rcu_read_unlock+0x0/0x26
> [   14.560000]  [<004ae65a>] kernel_init+0x0/0xfa
> [   14.560000]  [<0049c5a8>] strcpy+0x0/0x1e
> [   14.560000]  [<004a6584>] _printk+0x0/0x16
> [   14.560000]  [<0049c72a>] strlen+0x0/0x22
> [   14.560000]  [<006452d4>] memblock_alloc_try_nid+0x0/0x82
> [   14.560000]  [<0063939a>] arch_post_acpi_subsys_init+0x0/0x8
> [   14.560000]  [<0063991e>] console_on_rootfs+0x0/0x60
> [   14.560000]  [<00638410>] _sinittext+0x410/0xadc
> [   14.560000]

First of all, please read this
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#backtraces-in-commit-messages
and amend the commit message accordingly.

> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar at kernel.org>
> Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao at linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: linux-m68k at lists.linux-m68k.org

Second, please move these Cc to be after the '---' line

> Link: https://github.com/vivier/qemu-m68k/issues/44
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1078874617.9746.36.camel@gaston/

Missed Fixes tag?

> Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain at linux-m68k.org>
> ---
(here is a good location for Cc:)

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko




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