Re: [PATCH 1/4] printk: Disable preemption for printk_sched

From: Jan Kara
Date: Tue May 06 2014 - 06:10:55 EST


On Mon 05-05-14 13:47:41, John Stultz wrote:
> An earlier change in -mm (printk: remove separate printk_sched
> buffers...), removed the printk_sched irqsave/restore lines
> since it was safe for current users. Since we may be expanding
> usage of printk_sched(), disable preepmtion for this function
> to make it more generally safe to call.
Looks good to me. You can add:
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Honza
>
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/printk/printk.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
> index 82d19e6..57467df 100644
> --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
> +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
> @@ -2589,12 +2589,14 @@ int printk_sched(const char *fmt, ...)
> va_list args;
> int r;
>
> + preempt_disable();
> va_start(args, fmt);
> r = vprintk_emit(0, SCHED_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL, NULL, 0, fmt, args);
> va_end(args);
>
> __this_cpu_or(printk_pending, PRINTK_PENDING_OUTPUT);
> irq_work_queue(&__get_cpu_var(wake_up_klogd_work));
> + preempt_enable();
>
> return r;
> }
> --
> 1.9.1
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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