Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | [PATCH] printk, Use RCU to prevent potential lock contention in kmsg_dump | From | Huang Ying <> | Date | Thu, 25 Nov 2010 15:00:28 +0800 |
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dump_list_lock is used to protect dump_list in kmsg_dumper implementation, kmsg_dump() uses it to traverse dump_list too. But if there is contention on the lock, kmsg_dump() will fail, and the valuable kernel message may be lost.
This patch solves this issue with RCU. Because kmsg_dump() only read the list, no lock is needed in kmsg_dump(). So that kmsg_dump() will never fail because of lock contention.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> --- kernel/printk.c | 30 +++++++----------------------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk.c @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ #include <linux/syslog.h> #include <linux/cpu.h> #include <linux/notifier.h> +#include <linux/rculist.h> #include <asm/uaccess.h> @@ -1498,7 +1499,7 @@ int kmsg_dump_register(struct kmsg_dumpe /* Don't allow registering multiple times */ if (!dumper->registered) { dumper->registered = 1; - list_add_tail(&dumper->list, &dump_list); + list_add_tail_rcu(&dumper->list, &dump_list); err = 0; } spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dump_list_lock, flags); @@ -1522,29 +1523,16 @@ int kmsg_dump_unregister(struct kmsg_dum spin_lock_irqsave(&dump_list_lock, flags); if (dumper->registered) { dumper->registered = 0; - list_del(&dumper->list); + list_del_rcu(&dumper->list); err = 0; } spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dump_list_lock, flags); + synchronize_rcu(); return err; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kmsg_dump_unregister); -static const char * const kmsg_reasons[] = { - [KMSG_DUMP_OOPS] = "oops", - [KMSG_DUMP_PANIC] = "panic", - [KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC] = "kexec", -}; - -static const char *kmsg_to_str(enum kmsg_dump_reason reason) -{ - if (reason >= ARRAY_SIZE(kmsg_reasons) || reason < 0) - return "unknown"; - - return kmsg_reasons[reason]; -} - /** * kmsg_dump - dump kernel log to kernel message dumpers. * @reason: the reason (oops, panic etc) for dumping @@ -1583,13 +1571,9 @@ void kmsg_dump(enum kmsg_dump_reason rea l2 = chars; } - if (!spin_trylock_irqsave(&dump_list_lock, flags)) { - printk(KERN_ERR "dump_kmsg: dump list lock is held during %s, skipping dump\n", - kmsg_to_str(reason)); - return; - } - list_for_each_entry(dumper, &dump_list, list) + rcu_read_lock(); + list_for_each_entry_rcu(dumper, &dump_list, list) dumper->dump(dumper, reason, s1, l1, s2, l2); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dump_list_lock, flags); + rcu_read_unlock(); } #endif
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