From: John Ogness Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 08:35:34 +0206 Subject: [PATCH 08/54] printk: nbcon: Add callbacks to synchronize with driver Origin: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/6.11/older/patches-6.11-rt7.tar.xz Console drivers typically must deal with access to the hardware via user input/output (such as an interactive login shell) and output of kernel messages via printk() calls. To provide the necessary synchronization, usually some driver-specific locking mechanism is used (for example, the port spinlock for uart serial consoles). Until now, usage of this driver-specific locking has been hidden from the printk-subsystem and implemented within the various console callbacks. However, nbcon consoles would need to use it even in the generic code. Add device_lock() and device_unlock() callback which will need to get implemented by nbcon consoles. The callbacks will use whatever synchronization mechanism the driver is using for itself. The minimum requirement is to prevent CPU migration. It would allow a context friendly acquiring of nbcon console ownership in non-emergency and non-panic context. Signed-off-by: John Ogness Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-9-john.ogness@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior --- include/linux/console.h | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+) --- a/include/linux/console.h +++ b/include/linux/console.h @@ -372,6 +372,49 @@ struct console { */ void (*write_atomic)(struct console *con, struct nbcon_write_context *wctxt); + /** + * @device_lock: + * + * NBCON callback to begin synchronization with driver code. + * + * Console drivers typically must deal with access to the hardware + * via user input/output (such as an interactive login shell) and + * output of kernel messages via printk() calls. This callback is + * called by the printk-subsystem whenever it needs to synchronize + * with hardware access by the driver. It should be implemented to + * use whatever synchronization mechanism the driver is using for + * itself (for example, the port lock for uart serial consoles). + * + * The callback is always called from task context. It may use any + * synchronization method required by the driver. + * + * IMPORTANT: The callback MUST disable migration. The console driver + * may be using a synchronization mechanism that already takes + * care of this (such as spinlocks). Otherwise this function must + * explicitly call migrate_disable(). + * + * The flags argument is provided as a convenience to the driver. It + * will be passed again to device_unlock(). It can be ignored if the + * driver does not need it. + */ + void (*device_lock)(struct console *con, unsigned long *flags); + + /** + * @device_unlock: + * + * NBCON callback to finish synchronization with driver code. + * + * It is the counterpart to device_lock(). + * + * This callback is always called from task context. It must + * appropriately re-enable migration (depending on how device_lock() + * disabled migration). + * + * The flags argument is the value of the same variable that was + * passed to device_lock(). + */ + void (*device_unlock)(struct console *con, unsigned long flags); + atomic_t __private nbcon_state; atomic_long_t __private nbcon_seq; struct printk_buffers *pbufs;