[PATCH 08/30] powerpc/setup: Refactor/untangle panic notifiers

Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-04-27T22:53:56Z

The panic notifiers infrastructure is a bit limited in the scope of
the callbacks - basically every kind of functionality is dropped
in a list that runs in the same point during the kernel panic path.
This is not really on par with the complexities and particularities
of architecture / hypervisors' needs, and a refactor is ongoing.

As part of this refactor, it was observed that powerpc has 2 notifiers,
with mixed goals: one is just a KASLR offset dumper, whereas the other
aims to hard-disable IRQs (necessary on panic path), warn firmware of
the panic event (fadump) and run low-level platform-specific machinery
that might stop kernel execution and never come back.

Clearly, the 2nd notifier has opposed goals: disable IRQs / fadump
should run earlier while low-level platform actions should
run late since it might not even return. Hence, this patch decouples
the notifiers splitting them in three:

- First one is responsible for hard-disable IRQs and fadump,
should run early;

- The kernel KASLR offset dumper is really an informative notifier,
harmless and may run at any moment in the panic path;

- The last notifier should run last, since it aims to perform
low-level actions for specific platforms, and might never return.
It is also only registered for 2 platforms, pseries and ps3.

The patch better documents the notifiers and clears the code too,
also removing a useless header.

Currently no functionality change should be observed, but after
the planned panic refactor we should expect more panic reliability
with this patch.

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
---

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that allow us to test PowerPC code in a very complete, functional and FREE
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arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
index 518ae5aa9410..52f96b209a96 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
#include <linux/console.h>
#include <linux/screen_info.h>
#include <linux/root_dev.h>
-#include <linux/notifier.h>
#include <linux/cpu.h>
#include <linux/unistd.h>
#include <linux/serial.h>
@@ -680,8 +679,25 @@ int check_legacy_ioport(unsigned long base_port)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(check_legacy_ioport);

-static int ppc_panic_event(struct notifier_block *this,
- unsigned long event, void *ptr)
+/*
+ * Panic notifiers setup
+ *
+ * We have 3 notifiers for powerpc, each one from a different "nature":
+ *
+ * - ppc_panic_fadump_handler() is a hypervisor notifier, which hard-disables
+ * IRQs and deal with the Firmware-Assisted dump, when it is configured;
+ * should run early in the panic path.
+ *
+ * - dump_kernel_offset() is an informative notifier, just showing the KASLR
+ * offset if we have RANDOMIZE_BASE set.
+ *
+ * - ppc_panic_platform_handler() is a low-level handler that's registered
+ * only if the platform wishes to perform final actions in the panic path,
+ * hence it should run late and might not even return. Currently, only
+ * pseries and ps3 platforms register callbacks.
+ */
+static int ppc_panic_fadump_handler(struct notifier_block *this,
+ unsigned long event, void *ptr)
{
/*
* panic does a local_irq_disable, but we really
@@ -691,45 +707,63 @@ static int ppc_panic_event(struct notifier_block *this,

/*
* If firmware-assisted dump has been registered then trigger
- * firmware-assisted dump and let firmware handle everything else.
+ * its callback and let the firmware handles everything else.
*/
crash_fadump(NULL, ptr);
- if (ppc_md.panic)
- ppc_md.panic(ptr); /* May not return */
+
return NOTIFY_DONE;
}

-static struct notifier_block ppc_panic_block = {
- .notifier_call = ppc_panic_event,
- .priority = INT_MIN /* may not return; must be done last */
-};
-
-/*
- * Dump out kernel offset information on panic.
- */
static int dump_kernel_offset(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long v,
void *p)
{
pr_emerg("Kernel Offset: 0x%lx from 0x%lx\n",
kaslr_offset(), KERNELBASE);

- return 0;
+ return NOTIFY_DONE;
}

+static int ppc_panic_platform_handler(struct notifier_block *this,
+ unsigned long event, void *ptr)
+{
+ /*
+ * This handler is only registered if we have a panic callback
+ * on ppc_md, hence NULL check is not needed.
+ * Also, it may not return, so it runs really late on panic path.
+ */
+ ppc_md.panic(ptr);
+
+ return NOTIFY_DONE;
+}
+
+static struct notifier_block ppc_fadump_block = {
+ .notifier_call = ppc_panic_fadump_handler,
+ .priority = INT_MAX, /* run early, to notify the firmware ASAP */
+};
+
static struct notifier_block kernel_offset_notifier = {
- .notifier_call = dump_kernel_offset
+ .notifier_call = dump_kernel_offset,
+};
+
+static struct notifier_block ppc_panic_block = {
+ .notifier_call = ppc_panic_platform_handler,
+ .priority = INT_MIN, /* may not return; must be done last */
};

void __init setup_panic(void)
{
+ /* Hard-disables IRQs + deal with FW-assisted dump (fadump) */
+ atomic_notifier_chain_register(&panic_notifier_list,
+ &ppc_fadump_block);
+
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE) && kaslr_offset() > 0)
atomic_notifier_chain_register(&panic_notifier_list,
&kernel_offset_notifier);

- /* PPC64 always does a hard irq disable in its panic handler */
- if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PPC64) && !ppc_md.panic)
- return;
- atomic_notifier_chain_register(&panic_notifier_list, &ppc_panic_block);
+ /* Low-level platform-specific routines that should run on panic */
+ if (ppc_md.panic)
+ atomic_notifier_chain_register(&panic_notifier_list,
+ &ppc_panic_block);
}

#ifdef CONFIG_CHECK_CACHE_COHERENCY
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