Commit 8d91f8b1 authored by Tejun Heo's avatar Tejun Heo Committed by Linus Torvalds

printk: do cond_resched() between lines while outputting to consoles

@console_may_schedule tracks whether console_sem was acquired through
lock or trylock.  If the former, we're inside a sleepable context and
console_conditional_schedule() performs cond_resched().  This allows
console drivers which use console_lock for synchronization to yield
while performing time-consuming operations such as scrolling.

However, the actual console outputting is performed while holding
irq-safe logbuf_lock, so console_unlock() clears @console_may_schedule
before starting outputting lines.  Also, only a few drivers call
console_conditional_schedule() to begin with.  This means that when a
lot of lines need to be output by console_unlock(), for example on a
console registration, the task doing console_unlock() may not yield for
a long time on a non-preemptible kernel.

If this happens with a slow console devices, for example a serial
console, the outputting task may occupy the cpu for a very long time.
Long enough to trigger softlockup and/or RCU stall warnings, which in
turn pile more messages, sometimes enough to trigger the next cycle of
warnings incapacitating the system.

Fix it by making console_unlock() insert cond_resched() between lines if
@console_may_schedule.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: default avatarCalvin Owens <calvinowens@fb.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 81cc26f2
......@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ extern int console_trylock(void);
extern void console_unlock(void);
extern void console_conditional_schedule(void);
extern void console_unblank(void);
extern void console_flush_on_panic(void);
extern struct tty_driver *console_device(int *);
extern void console_stop(struct console *);
extern void console_start(struct console *);
......
......@@ -180,8 +180,7 @@ void panic(const char *fmt, ...)
* panic() is not being callled from OOPS.
*/
debug_locks_off();
console_trylock();
console_unlock();
console_flush_on_panic();
if (!panic_blink)
panic_blink = no_blink;
......
......@@ -2234,13 +2234,24 @@ void console_unlock(void)
static u64 seen_seq;
unsigned long flags;
bool wake_klogd = false;
bool retry;
bool do_cond_resched, retry;
if (console_suspended) {
up_console_sem();
return;
}
/*
* Console drivers are called under logbuf_lock, so
* @console_may_schedule should be cleared before; however, we may
* end up dumping a lot of lines, for example, if called from
* console registration path, and should invoke cond_resched()
* between lines if allowable. Not doing so can cause a very long
* scheduling stall on a slow console leading to RCU stall and
* softlockup warnings which exacerbate the issue with more
* messages practically incapacitating the system.
*/
do_cond_resched = console_may_schedule;
console_may_schedule = 0;
/* flush buffered message fragment immediately to console */
......@@ -2312,6 +2323,9 @@ void console_unlock(void)
call_console_drivers(level, ext_text, ext_len, text, len);
start_critical_timings();
local_irq_restore(flags);
if (do_cond_resched)
cond_resched();
}
console_locked = 0;
......@@ -2379,6 +2393,25 @@ void console_unblank(void)
console_unlock();
}
/**
* console_flush_on_panic - flush console content on panic
*
* Immediately output all pending messages no matter what.
*/
void console_flush_on_panic(void)
{
/*
* If someone else is holding the console lock, trylock will fail
* and may_schedule may be set. Ignore and proceed to unlock so
* that messages are flushed out. As this can be called from any
* context and we don't want to get preempted while flushing,
* ensure may_schedule is cleared.
*/
console_trylock();
console_may_schedule = 0;
console_unlock();
}
/*
* Return the console tty driver structure and its associated index
*/
......
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