printk/sched: Introduce special printk_sched() for those awkward moments

There's a few awkward printk()s inside of scheduler guts that people
prefer to keep but really are rather deadlock prone. Fudge around it
by storing the text in a per-cpu buffer and poll it using the existing
printk_tick() handler.

This will drop output when its more frequent than once a tick, however
only the affinity thing could possible go that fast and for that just
one should suffice to notify the admin he's done something silly..
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wua3lmkt3dg8nfts66o6brne@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

include/linux/printk.h

@@ -100,6 +100,11 @@ int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args);
 asmlinkage __printf(1, 2) __cold
 int printk(const char *fmt, ...);
 
+/*
+ * Special printk facility for scheduler use only, _DO_NOT_USE_ !
+ */
+__printf(1, 2) __cold int printk_sched(const char *fmt, ...);
+
 /*
  * Please don't use printk_ratelimit(), because it shares ratelimiting state
  * with all other unrelated printk_ratelimit() callsites.  Instead use
@@ -127,6 +132,11 @@ int printk(const char *s, ...)
 {
 	return 0;
 }
+static inline __printf(1, 2) __cold
+int printk_sched(const char *s, ...)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
 static inline int printk_ratelimit(void)
 {
 	return 0;

kernel/printk.c

@@ -1208,13 +1208,47 @@ int is_console_locked(void)
 	return console_locked;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Delayed printk facility, for scheduler-internal messages:
+ */
+#define PRINTK_BUF_SIZE		512
+
+#define PRINTK_PENDING_WAKEUP	0x01
+#define PRINTK_PENDING_SCHED	0x02
+
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, printk_pending);
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(char [PRINTK_BUF_SIZE], printk_sched_buf);
+
+int printk_sched(const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+	unsigned long flags;
+	va_list args;
+	char *buf;
+	int r;
+
+	local_irq_save(flags);
+	buf = __get_cpu_var(printk_sched_buf);
+
+	va_start(args, fmt);
+	r = vsnprintf(buf, PRINTK_BUF_SIZE, fmt, args);
+	va_end(args);
+
+	__this_cpu_or(printk_pending, PRINTK_PENDING_SCHED);
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
+
+	return r;
+}
 
 void printk_tick(void)
 {
 	if (__this_cpu_read(printk_pending)) {
-		__this_cpu_write(printk_pending, 0);
-		wake_up_interruptible(&log_wait);
+		int pending = __this_cpu_xchg(printk_pending, 0);
+		if (pending & PRINTK_PENDING_SCHED) {
+			char *buf = __get_cpu_var(printk_sched_buf);
+			printk(KERN_WARNING "[sched_delayed] %s", buf);
+		}
+		if (pending & PRINTK_PENDING_WAKEUP)
+			wake_up_interruptible(&log_wait);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -1228,7 +1262,7 @@ int printk_needs_cpu(int cpu)
 void wake_up_klogd(void)
 {
 	if (waitqueue_active(&log_wait))
-		this_cpu_write(printk_pending, 1);
+		this_cpu_or(printk_pending, PRINTK_PENDING_WAKEUP);
 }
 
 /**

kernel/sched/core.c

@@ -1284,7 +1284,7 @@ static int select_fallback_rq(int cpu, struct task_struct *p)
 	 * leave kernel.
 	 */
 	if (p->mm && printk_ratelimit()) {
-		printk(KERN_INFO "process %d (%s) no longer affine to cpu%d\n",
+		printk_sched("process %d (%s) no longer affine to cpu%d\n",
 				task_pid_nr(p), p->comm, cpu);
 	}
 

kernel/sched/rt.c

@@ -864,8 +864,14 @@ static int sched_rt_runtime_exceeded(struct rt_rq *rt_rq)
 		 * but accrue some time due to boosting.
 		 */
 		if (likely(rt_b->rt_runtime)) {
+			static bool once = false;
+
 			rt_rq->rt_throttled = 1;
-			printk_once(KERN_WARNING "sched: RT throttling activated\n");
+
+			if (!once) {
+				once = true;
+				printk_sched("sched: RT throttling activated\n");
+			}
 		} else {
 			/*
 			 * In case we did anyway, make it go away,