Re: [PATCH] net/skbuff: silence warnings under memory pressure

[Petr Mladek]

On Fri 2019-09-06 12:39:00, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (09/05/19 13:23), Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > I think we can queue significantly much less irq_work-s from printk().
> > > 
> > > Petr, Steven, what do you think?
> 
> [..]
> > I mean, really, do we need to keep calling wake up if it
> > probably never even executed?
> 
> I guess ratelimiting you are talking about ("if it probably never even
> executed") would be to check if we have already called wake up on the
> log_wait ->head. For that we need to, at least, take log_wait spin_lock
> and check that ->head is still in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE; which is (quite,
> but not exactly) close to what wake_up_interruptible() does - it doesn't
> wake up the same task twice, it bails out on `p->state & state' check.

I have just realized that only sleeping tasks are in the waitqueue.
It is already handled by waitqueue_active() check.

I am afraid that we could not ratelimit the wakeups. The userspace
loggers might then miss the last lines for a long.

We could move wake_up_klogd() back to console_unlock(). But it might
end up with a back-and-forth games according to who is currently
complaining.

Sigh, I still suggest to ratelimit the warning about failed
allocation.

Best Regards,
Petr