Guilherme G. Piccoli
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The Hyper-V framebuffer code registers a panic notifier in order to try updating its fbdev if the kernel crashed. The notifier callback is straightforward, but it calls the vmbus_sendpacket() routine eventually, and such function takes a spinlock for the ring buffer operations. Panic path runs in atomic context, with local interrupts and preemption disabled, and all secondary CPUs shutdown. That said, taking a spinlock might cause a lockup if a secondary CPU was disabled with such lock taken. Fix it here by checking if the ring buffer spinlock is busy on Hyper-V framebuffer panic notifier; if so, bail-out avoiding the potential lockup scenario. Cc: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) <parri.andrea@gmail.com> Cc: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com> Cc: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com> Cc: Tianyu Lan <Tianyu.Lan@microsoft.com> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org> Tested-by: Fabio A M Martins <fabiomirmar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220819221731.480795-10-gpiccoli@igalia.com Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.