xfs: prevent NMI timeouts in cmn_err

We currently have a global error message buffer in cmn_err that is
protected by a spin lock that disables interrupts.  Recently there
have been reports of NMI timeouts occurring when the console is
being flooded by SCSI error reports due to cmn_err() getting stuck
trying to print to the console while holding this lock (i.e. with
interrupts disabled). The NMI watchdog is seeing this CPU as
non-responding and so is triggering a panic.  While the trigger for
the reported case is SCSI errors, pretty much anything that spams
the kernel log could cause this to occur.

Realistically the only reason that we have the intemediate message
buffer is to prepend the correct kernel log level prefix to the log
message. The only reason we have the lock is to protect the global
message buffer and the only reason the message buffer is global is
to keep it off the stack. Hence if we can avoid needing a global
message buffer we avoid needing the lock, and we can do this with a
small amount of cleanup and some preprocessor tricks:

	1. clean up xfs_cmn_err() panic mask functionality to avoid
	   needing debug code in xfs_cmn_err()
	2. remove the couple of "!" message prefixes that still exist that
	   the existing cmn_err() code steps over.
	3. redefine CE_* levels directly to KERN_*
	4. redefine cmn_err() and friends to use printk() directly
	   via variable argument length macros.

By doing this, we can completely remove the cmn_err() code and the
lock that is causing the problems, and rely solely on printk()
serialisation to ensure that we don't get garbled messages.

A series of followup patches is really needed to clean up all the
cmn_err() calls and related messages properly, but that results in a
series that is not easily back portable to enterprise kernels. Hence
this initial fix is only to address the direct problem in the lowest
impact way possible.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/support/debug.h b/fs/xfs/support/debug.h
index d2d2046..05699f6 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/support/debug.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/support/debug.h
@@ -20,15 +20,22 @@
 
 #include <stdarg.h>
 
-#define CE_DEBUG        7               /* debug        */
-#define CE_CONT         6               /* continuation */
-#define CE_NOTE         5               /* notice       */
-#define CE_WARN         4               /* warning      */
-#define CE_ALERT        1               /* alert        */
-#define CE_PANIC        0               /* panic        */
-
-extern void cmn_err(int, char *, ...)
-	__attribute__ ((format (printf, 2, 3)));
+struct xfs_mount;
+
+#define CE_DEBUG        KERN_DEBUG
+#define CE_CONT         KERN_INFO
+#define CE_NOTE         KERN_NOTICE
+#define CE_WARN         KERN_WARNING
+#define CE_ALERT        KERN_ALERT
+#define CE_PANIC        KERN_EMERG
+
+void cmn_err(const char *lvl, const char *fmt, ...)
+		__attribute__ ((format (printf, 2, 3)));
+void xfs_fs_cmn_err( const char *lvl, struct xfs_mount *mp,
+		const char *fmt, ...) __attribute__ ((format (printf, 3, 4)));
+void xfs_cmn_err( int panic_tag, const char *lvl, struct xfs_mount *mp,
+		const char *fmt, ...) __attribute__ ((format (printf, 4, 5)));
+
 extern void assfail(char *expr, char *f, int l);
 
 #define ASSERT_ALWAYS(expr)	\