printk: enable interrupts before calling console_trylock_for_printk()
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Wed, 6 Aug 2014 23:09:10 +0000 (16:09 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 7 Aug 2014 01:01:24 +0000 (18:01 -0700)
We need interrupts disabled when calling console_trylock_for_printk()
only so that cpu id we pass to can_use_console() remains valid (for
other things console_sem provides all the exclusion we need and
deadlocks on console_sem due to interrupts are impossible because we use
down_trylock()).  However if we are rescheduled, we are guaranteed to
run on an online cpu so we can easily just get the cpu id in
can_use_console().

We can lose a bit of performance when we enable interrupts in
vprintk_emit() and then disable them again in console_unlock() but OTOH
it can somewhat reduce interrupt latency caused by console_unlock().

We differ from (reverted) commit 939f04bec1a4 in that we avoid calling
console_unlock() from vprintk_emit() with lockdep enabled as that has
unveiled quite some bugs leading to system freezes during boot (e.g.
  https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/30/242,
  https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/28/521).

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Andreas Bombe <aeb@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/printk/printk.c

index 5eb0e6c800bbd05aa2156b28c4aa20d5bb69b697..df202fe0974a4c851f7cc9a557fc1c3e3f3ba506 100644 (file)
@@ -1450,10 +1450,9 @@ static int have_callable_console(void)
 /*
  * Can we actually use the console at this time on this cpu?
  *
- * Console drivers may assume that per-cpu resources have
- * been allocated. So unless they're explicitly marked as
- * being able to cope (CON_ANYTIME) don't call them until
- * this CPU is officially up.
+ * Console drivers may assume that per-cpu resources have been allocated. So
+ * unless they're explicitly marked as being able to cope (CON_ANYTIME) don't
+ * call them until this CPU is officially up.
  */
 static inline int can_use_console(unsigned int cpu)
 {
@@ -1466,8 +1465,10 @@ static inline int can_use_console(unsigned int cpu)
  * console_lock held, and 'console_locked' set) if it
  * is successful, false otherwise.
  */
-static int console_trylock_for_printk(unsigned int cpu)
+static int console_trylock_for_printk(void)
 {
+       unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();
+
        if (!console_trylock())
                return 0;
        /*
@@ -1642,7 +1643,8 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk_emit(int facility, int level,
                 */
                if (!oops_in_progress && !lockdep_recursing(current)) {
                        recursion_bug = 1;
-                       goto out_restore_irqs;
+                       local_irq_restore(flags);
+                       return 0;
                }
                zap_locks();
        }
@@ -1750,21 +1752,30 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk_emit(int facility, int level,
 
        logbuf_cpu = UINT_MAX;
        raw_spin_unlock(&logbuf_lock);
+       lockdep_on();
+       local_irq_restore(flags);
 
        /* If called from the scheduler, we can not call up(). */
        if (!in_sched) {
+               lockdep_off();
+               /*
+                * Disable preemption to avoid being preempted while holding
+                * console_sem which would prevent anyone from printing to
+                * console
+                */
+               preempt_disable();
+
                /*
                 * Try to acquire and then immediately release the console
                 * semaphore.  The release will print out buffers and wake up
                 * /dev/kmsg and syslog() users.
                 */
-               if (console_trylock_for_printk(this_cpu))
+               if (console_trylock_for_printk())
                        console_unlock();
+               preempt_enable();
+               lockdep_on();
        }
 
-       lockdep_on();
-out_restore_irqs:
-       local_irq_restore(flags);
        return printed_len;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(vprintk_emit);