RE: Additional fix : (was [v2]printk: fix delayed messages from CPUhotplug events)

[Shilimkar, Santosh]

(Adding linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shilimkar, Santosh
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 2:22 PM
> To: 'Kevin Cernekee'
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Russell King - ARM Linux
> Subject: Additional fix : (was [v2]printk: fix delayed messages from CPU
> hotplug events)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have faced similar issue as what is being described in below with
> latest kernel.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/103347/
> 
> When a secondary CPU is being brought up, it is not uncommon for
> printk() to be invoked when cpu_online(smp_processor_id()) == 0.  The
> case that I witnessed personally was on MIPS:
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/30/4
> 
> If (can_use_console() == 0), printk() will spool its output to log_buf
> and it will be visible in "dmesg", but that output will NOT be echoed to
> the console until somebody calls release_console_sem() from a CPU that
> is online.  Therefore, the boot time messages from the new CPU can get
> stuck in "limbo" for a long time, and might suddenly appear on the
> screen when a completely unrelated event (e.g. "eth0: link is down")
> occurs.
> 
> This patch modifies the console code so that any pending messages are
> automatically flushed out to the console whenever a CPU hotplug
> operation completes successfully or aborts.
> 
> -----------------------------------------------
> 
> Above patch fixes only half of the problem. I mean the cpu online
> path prints are coming on the console.
> 
> But similar problem also exist if there are prints in the cpu offline
> path. I got that fixed by adding below patch on top of you patch.
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
> index d370b74..f4d7352 100644
> --- a/kernel/printk.c
> +++ b/kernel/printk.c
> @@ -982,6 +982,9 @@ static int __cpuinit console_cpu_notify(struct
> notifier_bloc
>         switch (action) {
>         case CPU_ONLINE:
>         case CPU_UP_CANCELED:
> +       case CPU_DEAD:
> +       case CPU_DYING:
> +       case CPU_DOWN_FAILED:
>                 if (try_acquire_console_sem() == 0)
>                         release_console_sem();
>         }
> 
> 
> 
> Regards
> Santosh
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/