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SubjectRe: [PATCH] printk: robustify printk
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On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 21:21 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> The initial printk_tick() based implementation didn't suffer this
> problem, should we revert to that scheme?

Just in case people care..

---
Subject: printk: robustify printk

Avoid deadlocks against rq->lock and xtime_lock by deferring the klogd
wakeup by polling from the timer tick.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
include/linux/kernel.h | 4 ++++
kernel/printk.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 2 +-
kernel/timer.c | 1 +
4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/kernel.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -200,6 +200,8 @@ extern struct ratelimit_state printk_rat
extern int printk_ratelimit(void);
extern bool printk_timed_ratelimit(unsigned long *caller_jiffies,
unsigned int interval_msec);
+extern void printk_tick(void);
+extern int printk_needs_cpu(int);
#else
static inline int vprintk(const char *s, va_list args)
__attribute__ ((format (printf, 1, 0)));
@@ -211,6 +213,8 @@ static inline int printk_ratelimit(void)
static inline bool printk_timed_ratelimit(unsigned long *caller_jiffies, \
unsigned int interval_msec) \
{ return false; }
+static inline void printk_tick(void) { }
+static inline int printk_needs_cpu(int) { return 0; }
#endif

extern void asmlinkage __attribute__((format(printf, 1, 2)))
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/printk.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/printk.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/printk.c
@@ -982,10 +982,25 @@ int is_console_locked(void)
return console_locked;
}

-void wake_up_klogd(void)
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, printk_pending);
+
+void printk_tick(void)
{
- if (!oops_in_progress && waitqueue_active(&log_wait))
+ if (__get_cpu_var(printk_pending)) {
+ __get_cpu_var(printk_pending) = 0;
wake_up_interruptible(&log_wait);
+ }
+}
+
+int printk_needs_cpu(int cpu)
+{
+ return per_cpu(printk_pending, cpu);
+}
+
+void wake_up_klogd(void)
+{
+ if (waitqueue_active(&log_wait))
+ __get_cpu_var(printk_pending) = 1;
}

/**
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(int inidl
next_jiffies = get_next_timer_interrupt(last_jiffies);
delta_jiffies = next_jiffies - last_jiffies;

- if (rcu_needs_cpu(cpu))
+ if (rcu_needs_cpu(cpu) || printk_needs_cpu(cpu))
delta_jiffies = 1;
/*
* Do not stop the tick, if we are only one off
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/timer.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/timer.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/timer.c
@@ -978,6 +978,7 @@ void update_process_times(int user_tick)
run_local_timers();
if (rcu_pending(cpu))
rcu_check_callbacks(cpu, user_tick);
+ printk_tick();
scheduler_tick();
run_posix_cpu_timers(p);
}



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