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Chris Down 3370155737 printk: Userspace format indexing support
We have a number of systems industry-wide that have a subset of their
functionality that works as follows:

1. Receive a message from local kmsg, serial console, or netconsole;
2. Apply a set of rules to classify the message;
3. Do something based on this classification (like scheduling a
   remediation for the machine), rinse, and repeat.

As a couple of examples of places we have this implemented just inside
Facebook, although this isn't a Facebook-specific problem, we have this
inside our netconsole processing (for alarm classification), and as part
of our machine health checking. We use these messages to determine
fairly important metrics around production health, and it's important
that we get them right.

While for some kinds of issues we have counters, tracepoints, or metrics
with a stable interface which can reliably indicate the issue, in order
to react to production issues quickly we need to work with the interface
which most kernel developers naturally use when developing: printk.

Most production issues come from unexpected phenomena, and as such
usually the code in question doesn't have easily usable tracepoints or
other counters available for the specific problem being mitigated. We
have a number of lines of monitoring defence against problems in
production (host metrics, process metrics, service metrics, etc), and
where it's not feasible to reliably monitor at another level, this kind
of pragmatic netconsole monitoring is essential.

As one would expect, monitoring using printk is rather brittle for a
number of reasons -- most notably that the message might disappear
entirely in a new version of the kernel, or that the message may change
in some way that the regex or other classification methods start to
silently fail.

One factor that makes this even harder is that, under normal operation,
many of these messages are never expected to be hit. For example, there
may be a rare hardware bug which one wants to detect if it was to ever
happen again, but its recurrence is not likely or anticipated. This
precludes using something like checking whether the printk in question
was printed somewhere fleetwide recently to determine whether the
message in question is still present or not, since we don't anticipate
that it should be printed anywhere, but still need to monitor for its
future presence in the long-term.

This class of issue has happened on a number of occasions, causing
unhealthy machines with hardware issues to remain in production for
longer than ideal. As a recent example, some monitoring around
blk_update_request fell out of date and caused semi-broken machines to
remain in production for longer than would be desirable.

Searching through the codebase to find the message is also extremely
fragile, because many of the messages are further constructed beyond
their callsite (eg. btrfs_printk and other module-specific wrappers,
each with their own functionality). Even if they aren't, guessing the
format and formulation of the underlying message based on the aesthetics
of the message emitted is not a recipe for success at scale, and our
previous issues with fleetwide machine health checking demonstrate as
much.

This provides a solution to the issue of silently changed or deleted
printks: we record pointers to all printk format strings known at
compile time into a new .printk_index section, both in vmlinux and
modules. At runtime, this can then be iterated by looking at
<debugfs>/printk/index/<module>, which emits the following format, both
readable by humans and able to be parsed by machines:

    $ head -1 vmlinux; shuf -n 5 vmlinux
    # <level[,flags]> filename:line function "format"
    <5> block/blk-settings.c:661 disk_stack_limits "%s: Warning: Device %s is misaligned\n"
    <4> kernel/trace/trace.c:8296 trace_create_file "Could not create tracefs '%s' entry\n"
    <6> arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c:144 _hpet_print_config "hpet: %s(%d):\n"
    <6> init/do_mounts.c:605 prepare_namespace "Waiting for root device %s...\n"
    <6> drivers/acpi/osl.c:1410 acpi_no_auto_serialize_setup "ACPI: auto-serialization disabled\n"

This mitigates the majority of cases where we have a highly-specific
printk which we want to match on, as we can now enumerate and check
whether the format changed or the printk callsite disappeared entirely
in userspace. This allows us to catch changes to printks we monitor
earlier and decide what to do about it before it becomes problematic.

There is no additional runtime cost for printk callers or printk itself,
and the assembly generated is exactly the same.

Signed-off-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> # for module.{c,h}
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e42070983637ac5e384f17fbdbe86d19c7b212a5.1623775748.git.chris@chrisdown.name
2021-07-19 11:57:48 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 24e44913aa ARM: SoC platform updates
SoC platform changes. Main theme this merge window:
 
  - The Netx platform (Netx 100/500) platform is removed by Linus Walleij--
    the SoC doesn't have active maintainers with hardware, and in
    discussions with the vendor the agreement was that it's OK to remove.
 
  - Russell King has a series of patches that cleans up and refactors
    SA1101 and RiscPC support.
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Merge tag 'armsoc-soc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc

Pull ARM SoC platform updates from Olof Johansson:
 "SoC platform changes. Main theme this merge window:

   - The Netx platform (Netx 100/500) platform is removed by Linus
     Walleij-- the SoC doesn't have active maintainers with hardware,
     and in discussions with the vendor the agreement was that it's OK
     to remove.

   - Russell King has a series of patches that cleans up and refactors
     SA1101 and RiscPC support"

* tag 'armsoc-soc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc: (47 commits)
  ARM: stm32: use "depends on" instead of "if" after prompt
  ARM: sa1100: convert to common clock framework
  ARM: exynos: Cleanup cppcheck shifting warning
  ARM: pxa/lubbock: remove lubbock_set_misc_wr() from global view
  ARM: exynos: Only build MCPM support if used
  arm: add missing include platform-data/atmel.h
  ARM: davinci: Use GPIO lookup table for DA850 LEDs
  ARM: OMAP2: drop explicit assembler architecture
  ARM: use arch_extension directive instead of arch argument
  ARM: imx: Switch imx7d to imx-cpufreq-dt for speed-grading
  ARM: bcm: Enable PINCTRL for ARCH_BRCMSTB
  ARM: bcm: Enable ARCH_HAS_RESET_CONTROLLER for ARCH_BRCMSTB
  ARM: riscpc: enable chained scatterlist support
  ARM: riscpc: reduce IRQ handling code
  ARM: riscpc: move RiscPC assembly files from arch/arm/lib to mach-rpc
  ARM: riscpc: parse video information from tagged list
  ARM: riscpc: add ecard quirk for Atomwide 3port serial card
  MAINTAINERS: mvebu: Add git entry
  soc: ti: pm33xx: Add a print while entering RTC only mode with DDR in self-refresh
  ARM: OMAP2+: Make some variables static
  ...
2019-07-19 17:05:08 -07:00
Russell King 12290cc462 ARM: riscpc: move RiscPC assembly files from arch/arm/lib to mach-rpc
Move the assembly files for RiscPC from arch/arm/lib to mach-rpc so
that we contain RiscPC bits in one subdirectory.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
2019-06-11 17:42:36 +01:00