Re: [PATCHv7 6/8] printk: use printk_safe buffers in printk

[Sergey Senozhatsky]

On (02/02/17 10:07), Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 11:11:34AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > On (02/01/17 16:39), Petr Mladek wrote:
> > [..]
> > > I guess that you are talking about the introduction of
> > > #define SCHED_WARN_ON(x)	WARN_ONCE(x, #x)
> > 
> > my guess would be that Jan was talking about printk_deferred() patch.
> > it's on my TODO list.
> > 
> > I want to entirely remove console_sem and scheduler out of printk() path.
> > that's the only way to make printk() deadlock safe.
> 
> And useless.. if you never get around to the 'later' part where you
> print the content. This way you still mostly get the output.

well, I wouldn't say that printk_deferred() has less chances. I see your
point, of course. but with printk_deferred() we, at least, will have messages
in logbuf (or printk_safe buffers), so they can appear in crash dump, for
instance. that "later" part can be sysrq, for example, or panic->flush_on_panic(),
etc. if "normal" printk->queue irq_work doesn't work.

needless to say, that in this particular case (WARN from sched), if the
first printk() out of N printk()-s, which sched core calls to dump_stack(),
deadlocks, then we got nothing to print/dump.

> And no, its not the only way, see my printk->early_printk patches. early
> serial console only does a loop over outb, impossible to mess that up.

certainly :)

	-ss