Re: [PATCH v6 3/5] printk: nbcon: Allow KDB to acquire the NBCON context

[Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>]

On Thu 2025-10-16 11:47:56, Marcos Paulo de Souza wrote:
> KDB can interrupt any console to execute the "mirrored printing" at any
> time, so add an exception to nbcon_context_try_acquire_direct to allow
> to get the context if the current CPU is the same as kdb_printf_cpu.
> 
> This change will be necessary for the next patch, which fixes
> kdb_msg_write to work with NBCON consoles by calling ->write_atomic on
> such consoles. But to print it first needs to acquire the ownership of
> the console, so nbcon_context_try_acquire_direct is fixed here.
> 
> @@ -207,11 +208,26 @@ static inline const char *kdb_walk_kallsyms(loff_t *pos)
>  /* Dynamic kdb shell command registration */
>  extern int kdb_register(kdbtab_t *cmd);
>  extern void kdb_unregister(kdbtab_t *cmd);
> +
> +/* Return true when KDB as locked for printing a message on this CPU. */
> +static inline
> +bool kdb_printf_on_this_cpu(void)
> +{
> +	/*
> +	 * We can use raw_smp_processor_id() here because the task could
> +	 * not get migrated when KDB has locked for printing on this CPU.
> +	 */
> +	return unlikely(READ_ONCE(kdb_printf_cpu) == raw_smp_processor_id());
> +}
> +
>  #else /* ! CONFIG_KGDB_KDB */
>  static inline __printf(1, 2) int kdb_printf(const char *fmt, ...) { return 0; }
>  static inline void kdb_init(int level) {}
>  static inline int kdb_register(kdbtab_t *cmd) { return 0; }
>  static inline void kdb_unregister(kdbtab_t *cmd) {}
> +
> +static inline bool kdb_printf_on_this_cpu(void) { return false };

As the robot pointed out, this should be:

   static inline bool kdb_printf_on_this_cpu(void) { return false; }

> +
>  #endif	/* CONFIG_KGDB_KDB */
>  enum {
>  	KDB_NOT_INITIALIZED,

The rest looks good. With the above change:

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>

Best Regards,
Petr