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SubjectRe: printk feature for syzbot?
On (05/11/18 11:17), Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
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> From what I see, it seems that interrupts can be nested:

Hm, I thought that in general IRQ handlers run with local IRQs
disabled on CPU. So, generally, IRQs don't nest. Was I wrong?
NMIs can nest, that's true; but I thought that at least IRQs
don't.

> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=72eddef9cedcf81486adb9dd3e789f0d77505ba5
> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=66fcf61c65f8aa50bbb862eb2fde27c08909a4ff
>
> Will this in_nmi()/in_irq()/in_serving_softirq()/else be enough to
> untangle output printed by such nested interrupts?

Well, hm. __irq_enter() does preempt_count_add(HARDIRQ_OFFSET) and
__irq_exit() does preempt_count_sub(HARDIRQ_OFFSET). So, technically,
you can store

preempt_count() & HARDIRQ_MASK
preempt_count() & SOFTIRQ_MASK
preempt_count() & NMI_MASK

in that extended context tracking. The numbers will not tell you
the IRQ line number, for instance, but at least you'll be able to
distinguish different hard/soft IRQs, NMIs. Just an idea, I didn't
check it, may be it won't work at all.

Ideally, the serial log should be like this

i:1 ... foo()
i:1 ... bar()
i:2 ... foo() // __irq_enter()
i:2 ... bar()
i:2 ... buz() // __irq_exit()
i:1 ... buz()

but I may be completely wrong.

Petr and Steven probably will have better ideas.

-ss

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