The pvpanic driver relies on panic notifiers to execute a callback
on panic event. Such function is executed in atomic context - the
panic function disables local IRQs, preemption and all other CPUs
that aren't running the panic code.
With that said, it's dangerous to use regular spinlocks in such path,
as introduced by commit b3c0f87746 ("misc/pvpanic: probe multiple instances").
This patch fixes that by replacing regular spinlocks with the trylock
safer approach.
It also fixes an old comment (about a long gone framebuffer code) and
the notifier priority - we should execute hypervisor notifiers early,
deferring this way the panic action to the hypervisor, as expected by
the users that are setting up pvpanic.
Fixes: b3c0f87746 ("misc/pvpanic: probe multiple instances")
Cc: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: Mihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@oracle.com>
Cc: Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Wang ShaoBo <bobo.shaobowang@huawei.com>
Cc: zhenwei pi <pizhenwei@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220427224924.592546-6-gpiccoli@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull char / misc driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big set of char / misc and other driver subsystem updates
for 5.14-rc1. Included in here are:
- habanalabs driver updates
- fsl-mc driver updates
- comedi driver updates
- fpga driver updates
- extcon driver updates
- interconnect driver updates
- mei driver updates
- nvmem driver updates
- phy driver updates
- pnp driver updates
- soundwire driver updates
- lots of other tiny driver updates for char and misc drivers
This is looking more and more like the "various driver subsystems
mushed together" tree...
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'char-misc-5.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (292 commits)
mcb: Use DEFINE_RES_MEM() helper macro and fix the end address
PNP: moved EXPORT_SYMBOL so that it immediately followed its function/variable
bus: mhi: pci-generic: Add missing 'pci_disable_pcie_error_reporting()' calls
bus: mhi: Wait for M2 state during system resume
bus: mhi: core: Fix power down latency
intel_th: Wait until port is in reset before programming it
intel_th: msu: Make contiguous buffers uncached
intel_th: Remove an unused exit point from intel_th_remove()
stm class: Spelling fix
nitro_enclaves: Set Bus Master for the NE PCI device
misc: ibmasm: Modify matricies to matrices
misc: vmw_vmci: return the correct errno code
siox: Simplify error handling via dev_err_probe()
fpga: machxo2-spi: Address warning about unused variable
lkdtm/heap: Add init_on_alloc tests
selftests/lkdtm: Enable various testable CONFIGs
lkdtm: Add CONFIG hints in errors where possible
lkdtm: Enable DOUBLE_FAULT on all architectures
lkdtm/heap: Add vmalloc linear overflow test
lkdtm/bugs: XFAIL UNALIGNED_LOAD_STORE_WRITE
...
