kdb: Adopt scheduler's task classification

Currently kdb contains some open-coded routines to generate a summary
character for each task. This code currently issues warnings, is
almost certainly bro

kdb: Adopt scheduler's task classification

Currently kdb contains some open-coded routines to generate a summary
character for each task. This code currently issues warnings, is
almost certainly broken and won't make sense to any kernel dev who
has ever used /proc to examine task states.

Fix both the warning and the potential for confusion by adopting the
scheduler's task classification. Whilst doing this we also simplify the
filtering by using mask strings directly (which means we don't have to
guess all the characters the scheduler might give us).

Unfortunately we can't quite match the scheduler classification completely.
We add four extra states: - for idle loops and i, m and s for sleeping
system daemons (which means kthreads in one of the I, M and S states).
These extra states are used to manage the filters for tools to make the
output of ps and bta less noisy.

Note: The Fixes below is the last point the original dubious code was
moved; it was not introduced by that patch. However it gives us
the last point to which this patch can be easily backported.
Happily that should be enough to cover the introduction of
CONFIG_WERROR!

Fixes: 2f064a59a11f ("sched: Change task_struct::state")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211102173158.3315227-1-daniel.thompson@linaro.org
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>

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kdb: Adopt scheduler's task classification

[ Upstream commit b77dbc86d60459b42ab375e4e23172e7245f2854 ]

Currently kdb contains some open-coded routines to generate a summary
character for each task

kdb: Adopt scheduler's task classification

[ Upstream commit b77dbc86d60459b42ab375e4e23172e7245f2854 ]

Currently kdb contains some open-coded routines to generate a summary
character for each task. This code currently issues warnings, is
almost certainly broken and won't make sense to any kernel dev who
has ever used /proc to examine task states.

Fix both the warning and the potential for confusion by adopting the
scheduler's task classification. Whilst doing this we also simplify the
filtering by using mask strings directly (which means we don't have to
guess all the characters the scheduler might give us).

Unfortunately we can't quite match the scheduler classification completely.
We add four extra states: - for idle loops and i, m and s for sleeping
system daemons (which means kthreads in one of the I, M and S states).
These extra states are used to manage the filters for tools to make the
output of ps and bta less noisy.

Note: The Fixes below is the last point the original dubious code was
moved; it was not introduced by that patch. However it gives us
the last point to which this patch can be easily backported.
Happily that should be enough to cover the introduction of
CONFIG_WERROR!

Fixes: 2f064a59a11f ("sched: Change task_struct::state")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211102173158.3315227-1-daniel.thompson@linaro.org
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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kdb: Use newer api for tasklist scanning

This kills using the do_each_thread/while_each_thread combo to
iterate all threads and uses for_each_process_thread() instead,
maintaining semantics. while_e

kdb: Use newer api for tasklist scanning

This kills using the do_each_thread/while_each_thread combo to
iterate all threads and uses for_each_process_thread() instead,
maintaining semantics. while_each_thread() is ultimately racy
and deprecated; although in this particular case there is no
concurrency so it doesn't matter. Still lets trivially get rid
of two more users.

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200907203206.21293-1-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>

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kernel: rename show_stack_loglvl() => show_stack()

Now the last users of show_stack() got converted to use an explicit log
level, show_stack_loglvl() can drop it's redundant suffix and become once
a

kernel: rename show_stack_loglvl() => show_stack()

Now the last users of show_stack() got converted to use an explicit log
level, show_stack_loglvl() can drop it's redundant suffix and become once
again well known show_stack().

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200418201944.482088-51-dima@arista.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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kdb: don't play with console_loglevel

Print the stack trace with KERN_EMERG - it should be always visible.

Playing with console_loglevel is a bad idea as there may be more messages
printed than wan

kdb: don't play with console_loglevel

Print the stack trace with KERN_EMERG - it should be always visible.

Playing with console_loglevel is a bad idea as there may be more messages
printed than wanted. Also the stack trace might be not printed at all if
printk() was deferred and console_loglevel was raised back before the
trace got flushed.

Unfortunately, after rebasing on commit 2277b492582d ("kdb: Fix stack
crawling on 'running' CPUs that aren't the master"), kdb_show_stack() uses
now kdb_dump_stack_on_cpu(), which for now won't be converted as it uses
dump_stack() instead of show_stack().

Convert for now the branch that uses show_stack() and remove
console_loglevel exercise from that case.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200418201944.482088-48-dima@arista.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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kdb: Gid rid of implicit setting of the current task / regs

Some (but not all?) of the kdb backtrace paths would cause the
kdb_current_task and kdb_current_regs to remain changed. As discussed
in a

kdb: Gid rid of implicit setting of the current task / regs

Some (but not all?) of the kdb backtrace paths would cause the
kdb_current_task and kdb_current_regs to remain changed. As discussed
in a review of a previous patch [1], this doesn't seem intuitive, so
let's fix that.

...but, it turns out that there's actually no longer any reason to set
the current task / current regs while backtracing anymore anyway. As
of commit 2277b492582d ("kdb: Fix stack crawling on 'running' CPUs
that aren't the master") if we're backtracing on a task running on a
CPU we ask that CPU to do the backtrace itself. Linux can do that
without anything fancy. If we're doing backtrace on a sleeping task
we can also do that fine without updating globals. So this patch
mostly just turns into deleting a bunch of code.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191010150735.dhrj3pbjgmjrdpwr@holly.lan

Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191109111624.4.Ibc3d982bbeb9e46872d43973ba808cd4c79537c7@changeid
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>

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kdb: Remove special case logic from kdb_read()

kdb_read() contains special case logic to force it exit after reading
a single character. We can remove all the special case logic by directly
calling

kdb: Remove special case logic from kdb_read()

kdb_read() contains special case logic to force it exit after reading
a single character. We can remove all the special case logic by directly
calling the function to read a single character instead. This also
allows us to tidy up the function prototype which, because it now matches
getchar(), we can also rename in order to make its role clearer.

This does involve some extra code to handle btaprompt properly but we
don't mind the new lines of code here because the old code had some
interesting problems (bad newline handling, treating unexpected
characters like <cr>).

Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191025073328.643-4-daniel.thompson@linaro.org

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kdb: Fix stack crawling on 'running' CPUs that aren't the master

In kdb when you do 'btc' (back trace on CPU) it doesn't necessarily
give you the right info. Specifically on many architectures
(inc

kdb: Fix stack crawling on 'running' CPUs that aren't the master

In kdb when you do 'btc' (back trace on CPU) it doesn't necessarily
give you the right info. Specifically on many architectures
(including arm64, where I tested) you can't dump the stack of a
"running" process that isn't the process running on the current CPU.
This can be seen by this:

echo SOFTLOCKUP > /sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT
# wait 2 seconds
<sysrq>g

Here's what I see now on rk3399-gru-kevin. I see the stack crawl for
the CPU that handled the sysrq but everything else just shows me stuck
in __switch_to() which is bogus:

======

[0]kdb> btc
btc: cpu status: Currently on cpu 0
Available cpus: 0, 1-3(I), 4, 5(I)
Stack traceback for pid 0
0xffffff801101a9c0 0 0 1 0 R 0xffffff801101b3b0 *swapper/0
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0x0/0x138
...
kgdb_compiled_brk_fn+0x34/0x44
...
sysrq_handle_dbg+0x34/0x5c
Stack traceback for pid 0
0xffffffc0f175a040 0 0 1 1 I 0xffffffc0f175aa30 swapper/1
Call trace:
__switch_to+0x1e4/0x240
0xffffffc0f65616c0
Stack traceback for pid 0
0xffffffc0f175d040 0 0 1 2 I 0xffffffc0f175da30 swapper/2
Call trace:
__switch_to+0x1e4/0x240
0xffffffc0f65806c0
Stack traceback for pid 0
0xffffffc0f175b040 0 0 1 3 I 0xffffffc0f175ba30 swapper/3
Call trace:
__switch_to+0x1e4/0x240
0xffffffc0f659f6c0
Stack traceback for pid 1474
0xffffffc0dde8b040 1474 727 1 4 R 0xffffffc0dde8ba30 bash
Call trace:
__switch_to+0x1e4/0x240
__schedule+0x464/0x618
0xffffffc0dde8b040
Stack traceback for pid 0
0xffffffc0f17b0040 0 0 1 5 I 0xffffffc0f17b0a30 swapper/5
Call trace:
__switch_to+0x1e4/0x240
0xffffffc0f65dd6c0

===

The problem is that 'btc' eventually boils down to
show_stack(task_struct, NULL);

...and show_stack() doesn't work for "running" CPUs because their
registers haven't been stashed.

On x86 things might work better (I haven't tested) because kdb has a
special case for x86 in kdb_show_stack() where it passes the stack
pointer to show_stack(). This wouldn't work on arm64 where the stack
crawling function seems needs the "fp" and "pc", not the "sp" which is
presumably why arm64's show_stack() function totally ignores the "sp"
parameter.

NOTE: we _can_ get a good stack dump for all the cpus if we manually
switch each one to the kdb master and do a back trace. AKA:
cpu 4
bt
...will give the expected trace. That's because now arm64's
dump_backtrace will now see that "tsk == current" and go through a
different path.

In this patch I fix the problems by catching a request to stack crawl
a task that's running on a CPU and then I ask that CPU to do the stack
crawl.

NOTE: this will (presumably) change what stack crawls are printed for
x86 machines. Now kdb functions will show up in the stack crawl.
Presumably this is OK but if it's not we can go back and add a special
case for x86 again.

Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>

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kdb: Fix "btc <cpu>" crash if the CPU didn't round up

I noticed that when I did "btc <cpu>" and the CPU I passed in hadn't
rounded up that I'd crash. I was going to copy the same fix from
commit 16

kdb: Fix "btc <cpu>" crash if the CPU didn't round up

I noticed that when I did "btc <cpu>" and the CPU I passed in hadn't
rounded up that I'd crash. I was going to copy the same fix from
commit 162bc7f5afd7 ("kdb: Don't back trace on a cpu that didn't round
up") into the "not all the CPUs" case, but decided it'd be better to
clean things up a little bit.

This consolidates the two code paths. It is _slightly_ wasteful in in
that the checks for "cpu" being too small or being offline isn't
really needed when we're iterating over all online CPUs, but that
really shouldn't hurt. Better to have the same code path.

While at it, eliminate at least one slightly ugly (and totally
needless) recursive use of kdb_parse().

Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>

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kdb: Remove unused "argcount" param from kdb_bt1(); make btaprompt bool

The kdb_bt1() had a mysterious "argcount" parameter passed in (always
the number 5, by the way) and never used. Presumably th

kdb: Remove unused "argcount" param from kdb_bt1(); make btaprompt bool

The kdb_bt1() had a mysterious "argcount" parameter passed in (always
the number 5, by the way) and never used. Presumably this is just old
cruft. Remove it. While at it, upgrade the btaprompt parameter to a
full fledged bool instead of an int.

Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>

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kdb: Don't back trace on a cpu that didn't round up

If you have a CPU that fails to round up and then run 'btc' you'll end
up crashing in kdb becaue we dereferenced NULL. Let's add a check.
It's wi

kdb: Don't back trace on a cpu that didn't round up

If you have a CPU that fails to round up and then run 'btc' you'll end
up crashing in kdb becaue we dereferenced NULL. Let's add a check.
It's wise to also set the task to NULL when leaving the debugger so
that if we fail to round up on a later entry into the debugger we
won't backtrace a stale task.

Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>

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kdb: use correct pointer when 'btc' calls 'btt'

On a powerpc 8xx, 'btc' fails as follows:

Entering kdb (current=0x(ptrval), pid 282) due to Keyboard Entry
kdb> btc
btc: cpu status: Currently on cpu

kdb: use correct pointer when 'btc' calls 'btt'

On a powerpc 8xx, 'btc' fails as follows:

Entering kdb (current=0x(ptrval), pid 282) due to Keyboard Entry
kdb> btc
btc: cpu status: Currently on cpu 0
Available cpus: 0
kdb_getarea: Bad address 0x0

when booting the kernel with 'debug_boot_weak_hash', it fails as well

Entering kdb (current=0xba99ad80, pid 284) due to Keyboard Entry
kdb> btc
btc: cpu status: Currently on cpu 0
Available cpus: 0
kdb_getarea: Bad address 0xba99ad80

On other platforms, Oopses have been observed too, see
https://github.com/linuxppc/linux/issues/139

This is due to btc calling 'btt' with %p pointer as an argument.

This patch replaces %p by %px to get the real pointer value as
expected by 'btt'

Fixes: ad67b74d2469 ("printk: hash addresses printed with %p")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>

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sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/debug.h>

We are going to split <linux/sched/debug.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up fro

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/debug.h>

We are going to split <linux/sched/debug.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/debug.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/signal.h>

We are going to split <linux/sched/signal.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up f

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/signal.h>

We are going to split <linux/sched/signal.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/signal.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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kernel/printk: use symbolic defines for console loglevels

... instead of naked numbers.

Stuff in sysrq.c used to set it to 8 which is supposed to mean above
default level so set it to DEBUG instead

kernel/printk: use symbolic defines for console loglevels

... instead of naked numbers.

Stuff in sysrq.c used to set it to 8 which is supposed to mean above
default level so set it to DEBUG instead as we're terminating/killing all
tasks and we want to be verbose there.

Also, correct the check in x86_64_start_kernel which should be >= as
we're clearly issuing the string there for all debug levels, not only
the magical 10.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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kdb: Fix dmesg/bta scroll to quit with 'q'

If you press 'q' the pager should exit instead of printing everything
from dmesg which can really bog down a 9600 baud serial link.

The same is true for t

kdb: Fix dmesg/bta scroll to quit with 'q'

If you press 'q' the pager should exit instead of printing everything
from dmesg which can really bog down a 9600 baud serial link.

The same is true for the bta command.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

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Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h

Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing
it. Performed with the following command:

perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*<asm/sy

Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h

Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing
it. Performed with the following command:

perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>' *`

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

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kdb: cleanup unused variables missed in the original kdb merge

The BTARGS and BTSYMARG variables do not have any function in the
mainline version of kdb.

Reported-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com

kdb: cleanup unused variables missed in the original kdb merge

The BTARGS and BTSYMARG variables do not have any function in the
mainline version of kdb.

Reported-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

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printk,kdb: capture printk() when in kdb shell

Certain calls from the kdb shell will call out to printk(), and any of
these calls should get vectored back to the kdb_printf() so that the
kdb pager a

printk,kdb: capture printk() when in kdb shell

Certain calls from the kdb shell will call out to printk(), and any of
these calls should get vectored back to the kdb_printf() so that the
kdb pager and processing can be used, as well as to properly channel
I/O to the polled I/O devices.

CC: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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kdb: core for kgdb back end (1 of 2)

This patch contains only the kdb core. Because the change set was
large, it was split. The next patch in the series includes the
instrumentation into the core

kdb: core for kgdb back end (1 of 2)

This patch contains only the kdb core. Because the change set was
large, it was split. The next patch in the series includes the
instrumentation into the core kernel which are mainly helper functions
for kdb.

This work is directly derived from kdb v4.4 found at:

ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/download/v4.4/

The kdb internals have been re-organized to make them mostly platform
independent and to connect everything to the debug core which is used by
gdbstub (which has long been known as kgdb).

The original version of kdb was 58,000 lines worth of changes to
support x86. From that implementation only the kdb shell, and basic
commands for memory access, runcontrol, lsmod, and dmesg where carried
forward.

This is a generic implementation which aims to cover all the current
architectures using the kgdb core: ppc, arm, x86, mips, sparc, sh and
blackfin. More archictectures can be added by implementing the
architecture specific kgdb functions.

[mort@sgi.com: Compile fix with hugepages enabled]
[mort@sgi.com: Clean breakpoint code renaming kdba_ -> kdb_]
[mort@sgi.com: fix new line after printing registers]
[mort@sgi.com: Remove the concept of global vs. local breakpoints]
[mort@sgi.com: Rework kdb_si_swapinfo to use more generic name]
[mort@sgi.com: fix the information dump macros, remove 'arch' from the names]
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: include fixup to include linux/slab.h]

CC: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>

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kdb: Use newer api for tasklist scanning

This kills using the do_each_thread/while_each_thread combo to
iterate all threads and uses for_each_process_thread() instead,
maintaining se

kdb: Use newer api for tasklist scanning

This kills using the do_each_thread/while_each_thread combo to
iterate all threads and uses for_each_process_thread() instead,
maintaining semantics. while_each_thread() is ultimately racy
and deprecated; although in this particular case there is no
concurrency so it doesn't matter. Still lets trivially get rid
of two more users.

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200907203206.21293-1-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>

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kernel: rename show_stack_loglvl() => show_stack()

Now the last users of show_stack() got converted to use an explicit log
level, show_stack_loglvl() can drop it's redundant suffix and b

kernel: rename show_stack_loglvl() => show_stack()

Now the last users of show_stack() got converted to use an explicit log
level, show_stack_loglvl() can drop it's redundant suffix and become once
again well known show_stack().

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200418201944.482088-51-dima@arista.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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kdb: don't play with console_loglevel

Print the stack trace with KERN_EMERG - it should be always visible.

Playing with console_loglevel is a bad idea as there may be more messages

kdb: don't play with console_loglevel

Print the stack trace with KERN_EMERG - it should be always visible.

Playing with console_loglevel is a bad idea as there may be more messages
printed than wanted. Also the stack trace might be not printed at all if
printk() was deferred and console_loglevel was raised back before the
trace got flushed.

Unfortunately, after rebasing on commit 2277b492582d ("kdb: Fix stack
crawling on 'running' CPUs that aren't the master"), kdb_show_stack() uses
now kdb_dump_stack_on_cpu(), which for now won't be converted as it uses
dump_stack() instead of show_stack().

Convert for now the branch that uses show_stack() and remove
console_loglevel exercise from that case.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200418201944.482088-48-dima@arista.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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kdb: Gid rid of implicit setting of the current task / regs

Some (but not all?) of the kdb backtrace paths would cause the
kdb_current_task and kdb_current_regs to remain changed. As di

kdb: Gid rid of implicit setting of the current task / regs

Some (but not all?) of the kdb backtrace paths would cause the
kdb_current_task and kdb_current_regs to remain changed. As discussed
in a review of a previous patch [1], this doesn't seem intuitive, so
let's fix that.

...but, it turns out that there's actually no longer any reason to set
the current task / current regs while backtracing anymore anyway. As
of commit 2277b492582d ("kdb: Fix stack crawling on 'running' CPUs
that aren't the master") if we're backtracing on a task running on a
CPU we ask that CPU to do the backtrace itself. Linux can do that
without anything fancy. If we're doing backtrace on a sleeping task
we can also do that fine without updating globals. So this patch
mostly just turns into deleting a bunch of code.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191010150735.dhrj3pbjgmjrdpwr@holly.lan

Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191109111624.4.Ibc3d982bbeb9e46872d43973ba808cd4c79537c7@changeid
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>

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kdb: Remove special case logic from kdb_read()

kdb_read() contains special case logic to force it exit after reading
a single character. We can remove all the special case logic by direc

kdb: Remove special case logic from kdb_read()

kdb_read() contains special case logic to force it exit after reading
a single character. We can remove all the special case logic by directly
calling the function to read a single character instead. This also
allows us to tidy up the function prototype which, because it now matches
getchar(), we can also rename in order to make its role clearer.

This does involve some extra code to handle btaprompt properly but we
don't mind the new lines of code here because the old code had some
interesting problems (bad newline handling, treating unexpected
characters like <cr>).

Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191025073328.643-4-daniel.thompson@linaro.org

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