panic: keep blinking in spite of long spin timer mode

To keep panic_timeout accuracy when running under a hypervisor, the
current implementation only spins on long time (1 second) calls to mdelay.
 That brings a good effect, but the problem is the keyboard LEDs don't
blink at all on that situation.

This patch changes to call to panic_blink_enter() between every mdelay and
keeps blinking in spite of long spin timer mode.

The time to call to mdelay is now 100ms.  Even this change will keep
panic_timeout accuracy enough when running under a hypervisor.

Signed-off-by: TAMUKI Shoichi <tamuki@linet.gr.jp>
Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

@@ -915,9 +915,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 			     controller
 	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
 			     controllers
-	i8042.panicblink=
-			[HW] Frequency with which keyboard LEDs should blink
-			     when kernel panics (default is 0.5 sec)
 	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init and cleanup
 	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
 

arch/arm/mach-s3c2440/mach-gta02.c

@@ -90,24 +90,17 @@
 static struct pcf50633 *gta02_pcf;
 
 /*
- * This gets called every 1ms when we paniced.
+ * This gets called frequently when we paniced.
  */
 
-static long gta02_panic_blink(long count)
+static long gta02_panic_blink(int state)
 {
 	long delay = 0;
-	static long last_blink;
+	char led;
-	static char led;
 
-	/* Fast blink: 200ms period. */
+	led = (state) ? 1 : 0;
-	if (count - last_blink < 100)
-		return 0;
-
-	led ^= 1;
 	gpio_direction_output(GTA02_GPIO_AUX_LED, led);
 
-	last_blink = count;
-
 	return delay;
 }
 
@@ -556,7 +549,7 @@ static void gta02_poweroff(void)
 
 static void __init gta02_machine_init(void)
 {
-	/* Set the panic callback to make AUX LED blink at ~5Hz. */
+	/* Set the panic callback to turn AUX LED on or off. */
 	panic_blink = gta02_panic_blink;
 
 	s3c_pm_init();

drivers/input/serio/i8042.c

@@ -61,10 +61,6 @@ static bool i8042_noloop;
 module_param_named(noloop, i8042_noloop, bool, 0);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(noloop, "Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing for the AUX port");
 
-static unsigned int i8042_blink_frequency = 500;
-module_param_named(panicblink, i8042_blink_frequency, uint, 0600);
-MODULE_PARM_DESC(panicblink, "Frequency with which keyboard LEDs should blink when kernel panics");
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86
 static bool i8042_dritek;
 module_param_named(dritek, i8042_dritek, bool, 0);
@@ -1030,8 +1026,8 @@ static void i8042_controller_reset(void)
 
 
 /*
- * i8042_panic_blink() will flash the keyboard LEDs and is called when
+ * i8042_panic_blink() will turn the keyboard LEDs on or off and is called
- * kernel panics. Flashing LEDs is useful for users running X who may
+ * when kernel panics. Flashing LEDs is useful for users running X who may
  * not see the console and will help distingushing panics from "real"
  * lockups.
  *
@@ -1041,22 +1037,12 @@ static void i8042_controller_reset(void)
 
 #define DELAY do { mdelay(1); if (++delay > 10) return delay; } while(0)
 
-static long i8042_panic_blink(long count)
+static long i8042_panic_blink(int state)
 {
 	long delay = 0;
-	static long last_blink;
+	char led;
-	static char led;
 
-	/*
+	led = (state) ? 0x01 | 0x04 : 0;
-	 * We expect frequency to be about 1/2s. KDB uses about 1s.
-	 * Make sure they are different.
-	 */
-	if (!i8042_blink_frequency)
-		return 0;
-	if (count - last_blink < i8042_blink_frequency)
-		return 0;
-
-	led ^= 0x01 | 0x04;
 	while (i8042_read_status() & I8042_STR_IBF)
 		DELAY;
 	dbg("%02x -> i8042 (panic blink)", 0xed);
@@ -1069,7 +1055,6 @@ static long i8042_panic_blink(long count)
 	dbg("%02x -> i8042 (panic blink)", led);
 	i8042_write_data(led);
 	DELAY;
-	last_blink = count;
 	return delay;
 }
 

include/linux/kernel.h

@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ struct va_format {
 };
 
 extern struct atomic_notifier_head panic_notifier_list;
-extern long (*panic_blink)(long time);
+extern long (*panic_blink)(int state);
 NORET_TYPE void panic(const char * fmt, ...)
 	__attribute__ ((NORET_AND format (printf, 1, 2))) __cold;
 extern void oops_enter(void);

kernel/panic.c

@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@
 #include <linux/nmi.h>
 #include <linux/dmi.h>
 
+#define PANIC_TIMER_STEP 100
+#define PANIC_BLINK_SPD 18
+
 int panic_on_oops;
 static unsigned long tainted_mask;
 static int pause_on_oops;
@@ -36,36 +39,15 @@ ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(panic_notifier_list);
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic_notifier_list);
 
-/* Returns how long it waited in ms */
+static long no_blink(int state)
-long (*panic_blink)(long time);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic_blink);
-
-static void panic_blink_one_second(void)
 {
-	static long i = 0, end;
+	return 0;
-
-	if (panic_blink) {
-		end = i + MSEC_PER_SEC;
-
-		while (i < end) {
-			i += panic_blink(i);
-			mdelay(1);
-			i++;
-		}
-	} else {
-		/*
-		 * When running under a hypervisor a small mdelay may get
-		 * rounded up to the hypervisor timeslice. For example, with
-		 * a 1ms in 10ms hypervisor timeslice we might inflate a
-		 * mdelay(1) loop by 10x.
-		 *
-		 * If we have nothing to blink, spin on 1 second calls to
-		 * mdelay to avoid this.
-		 */
-		mdelay(MSEC_PER_SEC);
-	}
 }
 
+/* Returns how long it waited in ms */
+long (*panic_blink)(int state);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic_blink);
+
 /**
  *	panic - halt the system
  *	@fmt: The text string to print
@@ -78,7 +60,8 @@ NORET_TYPE void panic(const char * fmt, ...)
 {
 	static char buf[1024];
 	va_list args;
-	long i;
+	long i, i_next = 0;
+	int state = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * It's possible to come here directly from a panic-assertion and
@@ -117,6 +100,9 @@ NORET_TYPE void panic(const char * fmt, ...)
 
 	bust_spinlocks(0);
 
+	if (!panic_blink)
+		panic_blink = no_blink;
+
 	if (panic_timeout > 0) {
 		/*
 		 * Delay timeout seconds before rebooting the machine.
@@ -124,9 +110,13 @@ NORET_TYPE void panic(const char * fmt, ...)
 		 */
 		printk(KERN_EMERG "Rebooting in %d seconds..", panic_timeout);
 
-		for (i = 0; i < panic_timeout; i++) {
+		for (i = 0; i < panic_timeout * 1000; i += PANIC_TIMER_STEP) {
 			touch_nmi_watchdog();
-			panic_blink_one_second();
+			if (i >= i_next) {
+				i += panic_blink(state ^= 1);
+				i_next = i + 3600 / PANIC_BLINK_SPD;
+			}
+			mdelay(PANIC_TIMER_STEP);
 		}
 		/*
 		 * This will not be a clean reboot, with everything
@@ -152,9 +142,13 @@ NORET_TYPE void panic(const char * fmt, ...)
 	}
 #endif
 	local_irq_enable();
-	while (1) {
+	for (i = 0; ; i += PANIC_TIMER_STEP) {
 		touch_softlockup_watchdog();
-		panic_blink_one_second();
+		if (i >= i_next) {
+			i += panic_blink(state ^= 1);
+			i_next = i + 3600 / PANIC_BLINK_SPD;
+		}
+		mdelay(PANIC_TIMER_STEP);
 	}
 }