x86/mce: Avoid potential deadlock due to printk() in MCE context
authorChen, Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>
Wed, 12 Aug 2015 16:29:37 +0000 (18:29 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 13 Aug 2015 08:12:51 +0000 (10:12 +0200)
commitf29a7aff4bd60ebc3da4982f80144a4158c4c74a
tree1403d279016fbaba44d00cb98e038b439fc50d65
parentfd4cf79fcc4b5130ced8fd8c40378d3cec2e5fa8
x86/mce: Avoid potential deadlock due to printk() in MCE context

Printing in MCE context is a no-no, currently, as printk() is
not NMI-safe. If some of the notifiers on the MCE chain call do
so, we may deadlock. In order to avoid that, delay printk() to
process context where it is safe.

Reported-by: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen, Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>
[ Fold in subsequent patch from Boris for early boot logging. ]
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
[ Kick irq_work in mce_log() directly. ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1439396985-12812-6-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-apei.c
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_intel.c