drm/fb-helper: Don't schedule_work() to flush frame buffer during panic()
Sometimes the system [1] hangs on x86 I/O machine checks. However, the expected behavior is to reboot the system, as the machine check handler ultimately triggers a panic(), initiating a reboot in the last step. The root cause is that sometimes the panic() is blocked when drm_fb_helper_damage() invoking schedule_work() to flush the frame buffer. This occurs during the process of flushing all messages to the frame buffer driver as shown in the following call trace: Machine check occurs [2]: panic() console_flush_on_panic() console_flush_all() console_emit_next_record() con->write() vt_console_print() hide_cursor() vc->vc_sw->con_cursor() fbcon_cursor() ops->cursor() bit_cursor() soft_cursor() info->fbops->fb_imageblit() drm_fbdev_generic_defio_imageblit() drm_fb_helper_damage_area() drm_fb_helper_damage() schedule_work() // <--- blocked here ... emergency_restart() // wasn't invoked, so no reboot. During panic(), except the panic CPU, all the other CPUs are stopped. In schedule_work(), the panic CPU requires the lock of worker_pool to queue the work on that pool, while the lock may have been token by some other stopped CPU. So schedule_work() is blocked. Additionally, during a panic(), since there is no opportunity to execute any scheduled work, it's safe to fix this issue by skipping schedule_work() on 'oops_in_progress' in drm_fb_helper_damage(). [1] Enable the kernel option CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE, CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION, and boot with the 'console=tty0' kernel command line parameter. [2] Set 'panic_timeout' to a non-zero value before calling panic(). Acked-by:Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Reported-by:
Yudong Wang <yudong.wang@intel.com> Tested-by:
Yudong Wang <yudong.wang@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20240703141737.75378-1-qiuxu.zhuo@intel.comSigned-off-by:
Maarten Lankhorst,,, <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
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