printk: nbcon: Init @nbcon_seq to highest possible

When initializing an nbcon console, have nbcon_alloc() set
@nbcon_seq to the highest possible sequence number. For all
practical purposes, this will guarantee that the console
will have nothing to print until later when @nbcon_seq is
set to the proper initial printing value.

This will be particularly important once kthread printing is
introduced because nbcon_alloc() can create/start the kthread
before the desired initial sequence number is known.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <[email protected]>

Author: jogness

kernel/printk/nbcon.c

@@ -1397,7 +1397,13 @@ bool nbcon_alloc(struct console *con)
 	struct nbcon_state state = { };
 
 	nbcon_state_set(con, &state);
-	atomic_long_set(&ACCESS_PRIVATE(con, nbcon_seq), 0);
+
+	/*
+	 * Initialize @nbcon_seq to the highest possible sequence number so
+	 * that practically speaking it will have nothing to print until a
+	 * desired initial sequence number has been set via nbcon_seq_force().
+	 */
+	atomic_long_set(&ACCESS_PRIVATE(con, nbcon_seq), ULSEQ_MAX(prb));
 
 	if (con->flags & CON_BOOT) {
 		/*

kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.h

@@ -404,10 +404,12 @@ u64 prb_next_reserve_seq(struct printk_ringbuffer *rb);
 
 #define __u64seq_to_ulseq(u64seq) (u64seq)
 #define __ulseq_to_u64seq(rb, ulseq) (ulseq)
+#define ULSEQ_MAX(rb) (-1)
 
 #else /* CONFIG_64BIT */
 
 #define __u64seq_to_ulseq(u64seq) ((u32)u64seq)
+#define ULSEQ_MAX(rb) __u64seq_to_ulseq(prb_first_seq(rb) + 0x80000000UL)
 
 static inline u64 __ulseq_to_u64seq(struct printk_ringbuffer *rb, u32 ulseq)
 {