linux-stable/arch/arc
Vineet Gupta 4749ffdfbb ARC: show_regs: lockdep: avoid page allocator...
[ Upstream commit ab6c03676c ]

and use smaller/on-stack buffer instead

The motivation for this change was lockdep splat like below.

| potentially unexpected fatal signal 11.
| BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at ../mm/page_alloc.c:4317
| in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 57, name: segv
| no locks held by segv/57.
| Preemption disabled at:
| [<8182f17e>] get_signal+0x4a6/0x7c4
| CPU: 0 PID: 57 Comm: segv Not tainted 4.17.0+ #23
|
| Stack Trace:
|  arc_unwind_core.constprop.1+0xd0/0xf4
|  __might_sleep+0x1f6/0x234
|  __get_free_pages+0x174/0xca0
|  show_regs+0x22/0x330
|  get_signal+0x4ac/0x7c4     # print_fatal_signals() -> preempt_disable()
|  do_signal+0x30/0x224
|  resume_user_mode_begin+0x90/0xd8

So signal handling core calls show_regs() with preemption disabled but
an ensuing GFP_KERNEL page allocator call is flagged by lockdep.

We could have switched to GFP_NOWAIT, but turns out that is not enough
anways and eliding page allocator call leads to less code and
instruction traces to sift thru when debugging pesky crashes.

FWIW, this patch doesn't cure the lockdep splat (which next patch does).

Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2019-03-05 17:58:48 +01:00
..
boot ARC: dma [IOC]: mark DMA devices connected as dma-coherent 2018-08-31 12:47:26 -07:00
configs arc: [devboards] Add support of NFSv3 ACL 2018-12-08 12:59:10 +01:00
include ARC: fix __ffs return value to avoid build warnings 2019-03-05 17:58:48 +01:00
kernel ARC: show_regs: lockdep: avoid page allocator... 2019-03-05 17:58:48 +01:00
lib ARCv2: lib: memeset: fix doing prefetchw outside of buffer 2019-01-31 08:14:35 +01:00
mm ARC: adjust memblock_reserve of kernel memory 2019-01-31 08:14:35 +01:00
oprofile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
plat-axs10x ARC: [plat-axs103] refactor the quad core DT quirk code 2017-12-20 12:41:45 -08:00
plat-eznps arc: [plat-eznps] fix printk warning in arc/plat-eznps/mtm.c 2018-07-30 11:48:49 -07:00
plat-hsdk ARCv2: [plat-hsdk]: Save accl reg pair by default 2018-07-19 10:36:45 -07:00
plat-sim ARC: [plat-sim] Include this platform unconditionally 2017-08-04 13:49:47 +05:30
plat-tb10x arc: select GPIOLIB directly 2016-04-26 14:07:59 +02:00
Kbuild
Kconfig clocksource/drivers/arc_timer: Utilize generic sched_clock 2019-01-09 17:38:42 +01:00
Kconfig.debug Kconfig: consolidate the "Kernel hacking" menu 2018-08-02 08:06:48 +09:00
Makefile ARC: change defconfig defaults to ARCv2 2018-12-08 12:59:10 +01:00