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commit 05c6257433b7212f07a7e53479a8ab038fc1666a upstream.
Attempting to get a crash dump out of a debug PREEMPT_RT kernel via an NMI
panic() doesn't work. The cause of that lies in the PREEMPT_RT definition
of mutex_trylock():
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES) && WARN_ON_ONCE(!in_task()))
return 0;
This prevents an nmi_panic() from executing the main body of
__crash_kexec() which does the actual kexec into the kdump kernel. The
warning and return are explained by:
6ce47fd961fa ("rtmutex: Warn if trylock is called from hard/softirq context")
[...]
The reasons for this are:
1) There is a potential deadlock in the slowpath
2) Another cpu which blocks on the rtmutex will boost the task
which allegedly locked the rtmutex, but that cannot work
because the hard/softirq context borrows the task context.
Furthermore, grabbing the lock isn't NMI safe, so do away with kexec_mutex
and replace it with an atomic variable. This is somewhat overzealous as
*some* callsites could keep using a mutex (e.g. the sysfs-facing ones
like crash_shrink_memory()), but this has the benefit of involving a
single unified lock and preventing any future NMI-related surprises.
Tested by triggering NMI panics via:
$ echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_unrecovered_nmi
$ echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/unknown_nmi_panic
$ echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/panic
$ ipmitool power diag
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220630223258.4144112-3-vschneid@redhat.com
Fixes: 6ce47fd961fa ("rtmutex: Warn if trylock is called from hard/softirq context")
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <jlelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <lgoncalv@redhat.com>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wenyang.linux@foxmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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