From: Jinchao Wang <wangjinchao600@gmail.com>
To: pmladek@suse.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>,
"Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>,
Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>,
Jinchao Wang <wangjinchao600@gmail.com>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com>,
Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>,
Feng Tang <feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com>,
Sravan Kumar Gundu <sravankumarlpu@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/9] panic: Introduce helper functions for panic state
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:14:46 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250820091702.512524-2-wangjinchao600@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250820091702.512524-1-wangjinchao600@gmail.com>
This patch introduces four new helper functions to abstract
the management of the panic_cpu variable. These functions
will be used in subsequent patches to refactor existing code.
The direct use of panic_cpu can be error-prone and
ambiguous, as it requires manual checks to determine which
CPU is handling the panic. The new helpers clarify intent:
panic_try_start():
Atomically sets the current CPU as the panicking CPU.
panic_reset():
Reset panic_cpu to PANIC_CPU_INVALID.
panic_in_progress():
Checks if a panic has been triggered.
panic_on_this_cpu():
Returns true if the current CPU is the panic originator.
panic_on_other_cpu():
Returns true if a panic is on another CPU.
This change lays the groundwork for improved code readability
and robustness in the panic handling subsystem.
Signed-off-by: Jinchao Wang <wangjinchao600@gmail.com>
---
include/linux/panic.h | 6 +++++
kernel/panic.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
kernel/printk/printk.c | 5 ----
3 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/panic.h b/include/linux/panic.h
index 7be742628c25..6f972a66c13e 100644
--- a/include/linux/panic.h
+++ b/include/linux/panic.h
@@ -43,6 +43,12 @@ void abort(void);
extern atomic_t panic_cpu;
#define PANIC_CPU_INVALID -1
+bool panic_try_start(void);
+void panic_reset(void);
+bool panic_in_progress(void);
+bool panic_on_this_cpu(void);
+bool panic_on_other_cpu(void);
+
/*
* Only to be used by arch init code. If the user over-wrote the default
* CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT, honor it.
diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index 72fcbb5a071b..eacb0c972110 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -294,6 +294,59 @@ void __weak crash_smp_send_stop(void)
atomic_t panic_cpu = ATOMIC_INIT(PANIC_CPU_INVALID);
+bool panic_try_start(void)
+{
+ int old_cpu, this_cpu;
+
+ /*
+ * Only one CPU is allowed to execute the crash_kexec() code as with
+ * panic(). Otherwise parallel calls of panic() and crash_kexec()
+ * may stop each other. To exclude them, we use panic_cpu here too.
+ */
+ old_cpu = PANIC_CPU_INVALID;
+ this_cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
+
+ return atomic_try_cmpxchg(&panic_cpu, &old_cpu, this_cpu);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic_try_start);
+
+void panic_reset(void)
+{
+ atomic_set(&panic_cpu, PANIC_CPU_INVALID);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic_reset);
+
+bool panic_in_progress(void)
+{
+ return unlikely(atomic_read(&panic_cpu) != PANIC_CPU_INVALID);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic_in_progress);
+
+/* Return true if a panic is in progress on the current CPU. */
+bool panic_on_this_cpu(void)
+{
+ /*
+ * We can use raw_smp_processor_id() here because it is impossible for
+ * the task to be migrated to the panic_cpu, or away from it. If
+ * panic_cpu has already been set, and we're not currently executing on
+ * that CPU, then we never will be.
+ */
+ return unlikely(atomic_read(&panic_cpu) == raw_smp_processor_id());
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic_on_this_cpu);
+
+/*
+ * Return true if a panic is in progress on a remote CPU.
+ *
+ * On true, the local CPU should immediately release any printing resources
+ * that may be needed by the panic CPU.
+ */
+bool panic_on_other_cpu(void)
+{
+ return (panic_in_progress() && !this_cpu_in_panic());
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic_on_other_cpu);
+
/*
* A variant of panic() called from NMI context. We return if we've already
* panicked on this CPU. If another CPU already panicked, loop in
diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index 0efbcdda9aab..5fe35f377b79 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -345,11 +345,6 @@ static void __up_console_sem(unsigned long ip)
}
#define up_console_sem() __up_console_sem(_RET_IP_)
-static bool panic_in_progress(void)
-{
- return unlikely(atomic_read(&panic_cpu) != PANIC_CPU_INVALID);
-}
-
/* Return true if a panic is in progress on the current CPU. */
bool this_cpu_in_panic(void)
{
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-20 9:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-20 9:14 [PATCH 0/9] panic: introduce panic status function family Jinchao Wang
2025-08-20 9:14 ` Jinchao Wang [this message]
2025-08-20 9:14 ` [PATCH 2/9] fbdev: Use panic_in_progress() helper Jinchao Wang
2025-08-20 9:14 ` [PATCH 3/9] crash_core: use panic_try_start() in crash_kexec() Jinchao Wang
2025-08-20 9:14 ` [PATCH 4/9] panic: use panic_try_start() in nmi_panic() Jinchao Wang
2025-08-20 9:14 ` [PATCH 5/9] panic: use panic_try_start() in vpanic() Jinchao Wang
2025-08-20 9:14 ` [PATCH 6/9] printk/nbcon: use panic_on_this_cpu() helper Jinchao Wang
2025-08-20 9:14 ` [PATCH 7/9] panic/printk: replace this_cpu_in_panic() with panic_on_this_cpu() Jinchao Wang
2025-08-20 9:14 ` [PATCH 8/9] panic/printk: replace other_cpu_in_panic() with panic_on_other_cpu() Jinchao Wang
2025-08-20 9:14 ` [PATCH 9/9] watchdog: skip checks when panic is in progress Jinchao Wang
2025-08-20 15:18 ` Yury Norov
2025-08-21 1:29 ` Jinchao Wang
2025-08-25 10:05 ` [PATCH 8/9] panic/printk: replace other_cpu_in_panic() with panic_on_other_cpu() John Ogness
2025-08-25 9:53 ` [PATCH 6/9] printk/nbcon: use panic_on_this_cpu() helper John Ogness
2025-08-26 0:58 ` Jinchao Wang
2025-08-20 13:35 ` [PATCH 3/9] crash_core: use panic_try_start() in crash_kexec() Baoquan He
2025-08-20 13:43 ` Baoquan He
2025-08-21 2:43 ` Baoquan He
2025-08-21 3:41 ` Jinchao Wang
2025-08-20 10:44 ` [PATCH 2/9] fbdev: Use panic_in_progress() helper Qianqiang Liu
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