From: Andre Carvalho <asantostc@gmail.com>
To: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
Andre Carvalho <asantostc@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 4/5] netconsole: resume previously deactivated target
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:12:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250909-netcons-retrigger-v1-4-3aea904926cf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250909-netcons-retrigger-v1-0-3aea904926cf@gmail.com>
Attempt to resume a previously deactivated target when the associated
interface comes back (NETDEV_UP event is received).
Target transitions to STATE_DISABLED in case of failures resuming it to
avoid retrying the same target indefinitely.
Signed-off-by: Andre Carvalho <asantostc@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/netconsole.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
index 59d770bb4baa5f9616b10c0dfb39ed45a4eb7710..397e6543b3d9aeda6da450823adee09cb3e9ae70 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
@@ -135,10 +135,12 @@ enum target_state {
* @stats: Packet send stats for the target. Used for debugging.
* @state: State of the target.
* Visible from userspace (read-write).
- * We maintain a strict 1:1 correspondence between this and
- * whether the corresponding netpoll is active or inactive.
+ * From a userspace perspective, the target is either enabled or
+ * disabled. Internally, although both STATE_DISABLED and
+ * STATE_DEACTIVATED correspond to inactive netpoll the latter is
+ * due to interface state changes and may recover automatically.
* Also, other parameters of a target may be modified at
- * runtime only when it is disabled (state == STATE_DISABLED).
+ * runtime only when it is disabled (state != STATE_ENABLED).
* @extended: Denotes whether console is extended or not.
* @release: Denotes whether kernel release version should be prepended
* to the message. Depends on extended console.
@@ -172,6 +174,7 @@ struct netconsole_target {
struct netpoll np;
/* protected by target_list_lock */
char buf[MAX_PRINT_CHUNK];
+ struct work_struct resume_wq;
};
#ifdef CONFIG_NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC
@@ -237,6 +240,33 @@ static void populate_configfs_item(struct netconsole_target *nt,
}
#endif /* CONFIG_NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC */
+/* Attempts to resume logging to a deactivated target. */
+static void resume_target(struct netconsole_target *nt)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ if (nt->state != STATE_DEACTIVATED)
+ return;
+
+ ret = netpoll_setup(&nt->np);
+ if (ret) {
+ /* netpoll fails to register once, do not try again. */
+ nt->state = STATE_DISABLED;
+ } else {
+ pr_info("network logging resumed on interface %s\n",
+ nt->np.dev_name);
+ nt->state = STATE_ENABLED;
+ }
+}
+
+static void resume_work_handler(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+ struct netconsole_target *nt =
+ container_of(work, struct netconsole_target, resume_wq);
+
+ resume_target(nt);
+}
+
/* Allocate and initialize with defaults.
* Note that these targets get their config_item fields zeroed-out.
*/
@@ -260,6 +290,8 @@ static struct netconsole_target *alloc_and_init(void)
eth_broadcast_addr(nt->np.remote_mac);
nt->state = STATE_DISABLED;
+ INIT_WORK(&nt->resume_wq, resume_work_handler);
+
return nt;
}
@@ -1440,7 +1472,8 @@ static int netconsole_netdev_event(struct notifier_block *this,
bool stopped = false;
if (!(event == NETDEV_CHANGENAME || event == NETDEV_UNREGISTER ||
- event == NETDEV_RELEASE || event == NETDEV_JOIN))
+ event == NETDEV_RELEASE || event == NETDEV_JOIN ||
+ event == NETDEV_UP))
goto done;
mutex_lock(&target_cleanup_list_lock);
@@ -1460,6 +1493,10 @@ static int netconsole_netdev_event(struct notifier_block *this,
stopped = true;
}
}
+ if (nt->state == STATE_DEACTIVATED && event == NETDEV_UP) {
+ if (!strncmp(nt->np.dev_name, dev->name, IFNAMSIZ))
+ schedule_work(&nt->resume_wq);
+ }
netconsole_target_put(nt);
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&target_list_lock, flags);
@@ -1915,6 +1952,7 @@ static struct netconsole_target *alloc_param_target(char *target_config,
static void free_param_target(struct netconsole_target *nt)
{
netpoll_cleanup(&nt->np);
+ cancel_work_sync(&nt->resume_wq);
kfree(nt);
}
--
2.51.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-09 21:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-09 21:12 [PATCH net-next 0/5] netconsole: support automatic target recovery Andre Carvalho
2025-09-09 21:12 ` [PATCH net-next 1/5] netconsole: add target_state enum Andre Carvalho
2025-09-09 21:12 ` [PATCH net-next 2/5] netconsole: convert 'enabled' flag to enum for clearer state management Andre Carvalho
2025-09-09 21:12 ` [PATCH net-next 3/5] netconsole: add STATE_DEACTIVATED to track targets disabled by low level Andre Carvalho
2025-09-09 21:12 ` Andre Carvalho [this message]
2025-09-10 11:05 ` [PATCH net-next 4/5] netconsole: resume previously deactivated target kernel test robot
2025-09-10 19:50 ` Breno Leitao
2025-09-11 8:05 ` Andre Carvalho
2025-09-09 21:12 ` [PATCH net-next 5/5] selftests: netconsole: validate target reactivation Andre Carvalho
2025-09-10 19:59 ` Breno Leitao
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