pstore: change mutex locking to spin_locks

pstore was using mutex locking to protect read/write access to the
backend plug-ins.  This causes problems when pstore is executed in
an NMI context through panic() -> kmsg_dump().

This patch changes the mutex to a spin_lock_irqsave then also checks to
see if we are in an NMI context.  If we are in an NMI and can't get the
lock, just print a message stating that and blow by the locking.

All this is probably a hack around the bigger locking problem but it
solves my current situation of trying to sleep in an NMI context.

Tested by loading the lkdtm module and executing a HARDLOCKUP which
will cause the machine to panic inside the nmi handler.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/pstore.h b/include/linux/pstore.h
index cc03bbf5c4b..b91440e64d6 100644
--- a/include/linux/pstore.h
+++ b/include/linux/pstore.h
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ enum pstore_type_id {
 struct pstore_info {
 	struct module	*owner;
 	char		*name;
-	struct mutex	buf_mutex;	/* serialize access to 'buf' */
+	spinlock_t	buf_lock;	/* serialize access to 'buf' */
 	char		*buf;
 	size_t		bufsize;
 	int		(*open)(struct pstore_info *psi);