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Darren Hart f24e2362d6 ACPI/APEI: Limit printable size of BERT table data
[ Upstream commit 3f8dec116210ca649163574ed5f8df1e3b837d07 ]

Platforms with large BERT table data can trigger soft lockup errors
while attempting to print the entire BERT table data to the console at
boot:

  watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#160 stuck for 23s! [swapper/0:1]

Observed on Ampere Altra systems with a single BERT record of ~250KB.

The original bert driver appears to have assumed relatively small table
data. Since it is impractical to reassemble large table data from
interwoven console messages, and the table data is available in

  /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/data/BERT

limit the size for tables printed to the console to 1024 (for no reason
other than it seemed like a good place to kick off the discussion, would
appreciate feedback from existing users in terms of what size would
maintain their current usage model).

Alternatively, we could make printing a CONFIG option, use the
bert_disable boot arg (or something similar), or use a debug log level.
However, all those solutions require extra steps or change the existing
behavior for small table data. Limiting the size preserves existing
behavior on existing platforms with small table data, and eliminates the
soft lockups for platforms with large table data, while still making it
available.

Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <darren@os.amperecomputing.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2022-04-15 14:18:23 +02:00
arch xen: fix is_xen_pmu() 2022-04-15 14:18:21 +02:00
block Revert "Revert "block, bfq: honor already-setup queue merges"" 2022-04-15 14:18:23 +02:00
certs certs: Trigger creation of RSA module signing key if it's not an RSA key 2021-09-15 09:47:29 +02:00
crypto crypto: authenc - Fix sleep in atomic context in decrypt_tail 2022-04-15 14:18:04 +02:00
Documentation Documentation: update stable tree link 2022-04-15 14:17:58 +02:00
drivers ACPI/APEI: Limit printable size of BERT table data 2022-04-15 14:18:23 +02:00
fs NFSv4/pNFS: Fix another issue with a list iterator pointing to the head 2022-04-15 14:18:21 +02:00
include PCI: Reduce warnings on possible RW1C corruption 2022-04-15 14:18:15 +02:00
init bpf: Add kconfig knob for disabling unpriv bpf by default 2022-02-16 12:52:49 +01:00
ipc shm: extend forced shm destroy to support objects from several IPC nses 2021-12-01 09:23:35 +01:00
kernel dma-debug: fix return value of __setup handlers 2022-04-15 14:18:18 +02:00
lib lib/raid6/test/Makefile: Use $(pound) instead of \# for Make 4.3 2022-04-15 14:18:23 +02:00
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mm mm/kmemleak: reset tag when compare object pointer 2022-04-15 14:18:01 +02:00
net net/x25: Fix null-ptr-deref caused by x25_disconnect 2022-04-15 14:18:21 +02:00
samples samples/kretprobes: Fix return value if register_kretprobe() failed 2021-11-17 09:48:39 +01:00
scripts gcc-plugins/stackleak: Exactly match strings instead of prefixes 2022-04-15 14:18:22 +02:00
security Fix incorrect type in assignment of ipv6 port for audit 2022-04-15 14:18:22 +02:00
sound ASoC: msm8916-wcd-analog: Fix error handling in pm8916_wcd_analog_spmi_probe 2022-04-15 14:18:10 +02:00
tools selftests: test_vxlan_under_vrf: Fix broken test case 2022-04-15 14:18:21 +02:00
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