[RFC][PATCHv2 3/8] printk: offload printing from wake_up_klogd_work_func()

[Sergey Senozhatsky]

Offload printing of printk_deferred() messages from IRQ context
to a schedulable printing kthread, when possible (the same way
we do it in vprintk_emit()). Otherwise, console_unlock() can
force the printing CPU to spend unbound amount of time flushing
kernel messages from IRQ context.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/printk/printk.c | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index ab6b3b2a68c6..1927b5cb5cbe 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -2741,8 +2741,16 @@ static void wake_up_klogd_work_func(struct irq_work *irq_work)
 		 * If trylock fails, someone else is doing the printing.
 		 * PRINTK_PENDING_OUTPUT bit is cleared by console_unlock().
 		 */
-		if (console_trylock())
-			console_unlock();
+		if (printk_kthread_enabled()) {
+			wake_up_process(printk_kthread);
+		} else {
+			/*
+			 * If trylock fails, someone else is doing the
+			 * printing
+			 */
+			if (console_trylock())
+				console_unlock();
+		}
 	}
 
 	if (test_and_clear_bit(PRINTK_PENDING_WAKEUP, &printk_pending))
-- 
2.12.2