panic: release stale console lock to always get the logbuf printed out
authorVitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Sat, 7 Nov 2015 00:32:58 +0000 (16:32 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 7 Nov 2015 01:50:42 +0000 (17:50 -0800)
commit08d78658f393fefaa2e6507ea052c6f8ef4002a2
treed013128ecf2efb6f4d2701f92745cab54f7511ab
parent7f8306429c4c75f9e2bf39fcfe990b0af2f7292d
panic: release stale console lock to always get the logbuf printed out

In some cases we may end up killing the CPU holding the console lock
while still having valuable data in logbuf. E.g. I'm observing the
following:

- A crash is happening on one CPU and console_unlock() is being called on
  some other.

- console_unlock() tries to print out the buffer before releasing the lock
  and on slow console it takes time.

- in the meanwhile crashing CPU does lots of printk()-s with valuable data
  (which go to the logbuf) and sends IPIs to all other CPUs.

- console_unlock() finishes printing previous chunk and enables interrupts
  before trying to print out the rest, the CPU catches the IPI and never
  releases console lock.

This is not the only possible case: in VT/fb subsystems we have many other
console_lock()/console_unlock() users.  Non-masked interrupts (or
receiving NMI in case of extreme slowness) will have the same result.
Getting the whole console buffer printed out on crash should be top
priority.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment text]
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/panic.c