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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2005-09-06 18:16:34 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-09-07 19:57:18 -0400
commitfe21773d655c2c64641ec2cef499289ea175c817 (patch)
treeebc1f49f0b7135aa05bbf3a5463a6e1c238add89 /kernel
parentc3d8c1414573be8cf7c8fdc1e076935697c7f6af (diff)
[PATCH] Provide better printk() support for SMP machines
The attached patch prevents oopses interleaving with characters from other printks on other CPUs by only breaking the lock if the oops is happening on the machine holding the lock. It might be better if the oops generator got the lock and then called an inner vprintk routine that assumed the caller holds the lock, thus making oops reports "atomic". Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk.c13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index 5092397fac29..a967605bc2e3 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -514,6 +514,9 @@ asmlinkage int printk(const char *fmt, ...)
514 return r; 514 return r;
515} 515}
516 516
517/* cpu currently holding logbuf_lock */
518static volatile unsigned int printk_cpu = UINT_MAX;
519
517asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args) 520asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
518{ 521{
519 unsigned long flags; 522 unsigned long flags;
@@ -522,11 +525,15 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
522 static char printk_buf[1024]; 525 static char printk_buf[1024];
523 static int log_level_unknown = 1; 526 static int log_level_unknown = 1;
524 527
525 if (unlikely(oops_in_progress)) 528 preempt_disable();
529 if (unlikely(oops_in_progress) && printk_cpu == smp_processor_id())
530 /* If a crash is occurring during printk() on this CPU,
531 * make sure we can't deadlock */
526 zap_locks(); 532 zap_locks();
527 533
528 /* This stops the holder of console_sem just where we want him */ 534 /* This stops the holder of console_sem just where we want him */
529 spin_lock_irqsave(&logbuf_lock, flags); 535 spin_lock_irqsave(&logbuf_lock, flags);
536 printk_cpu = smp_processor_id();
530 537
531 /* Emit the output into the temporary buffer */ 538 /* Emit the output into the temporary buffer */
532 printed_len = vscnprintf(printk_buf, sizeof(printk_buf), fmt, args); 539 printed_len = vscnprintf(printk_buf, sizeof(printk_buf), fmt, args);
@@ -595,6 +602,7 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
595 * CPU until it is officially up. We shouldn't be calling into 602 * CPU until it is officially up. We shouldn't be calling into
596 * random console drivers on a CPU which doesn't exist yet.. 603 * random console drivers on a CPU which doesn't exist yet..
597 */ 604 */
605 printk_cpu = UINT_MAX;
598 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&logbuf_lock, flags); 606 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&logbuf_lock, flags);
599 goto out; 607 goto out;
600 } 608 }
@@ -604,6 +612,7 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
604 * We own the drivers. We can drop the spinlock and let 612 * We own the drivers. We can drop the spinlock and let
605 * release_console_sem() print the text 613 * release_console_sem() print the text
606 */ 614 */
615 printk_cpu = UINT_MAX;
607 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&logbuf_lock, flags); 616 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&logbuf_lock, flags);
608 console_may_schedule = 0; 617 console_may_schedule = 0;
609 release_console_sem(); 618 release_console_sem();
@@ -613,9 +622,11 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
613 * allows the semaphore holder to proceed and to call the 622 * allows the semaphore holder to proceed and to call the
614 * console drivers with the output which we just produced. 623 * console drivers with the output which we just produced.
615 */ 624 */
625 printk_cpu = UINT_MAX;
616 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&logbuf_lock, flags); 626 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&logbuf_lock, flags);
617 } 627 }
618out: 628out:
629 preempt_enable();
619 return printed_len; 630 return printed_len;
620} 631}
621EXPORT_SYMBOL(printk); 632EXPORT_SYMBOL(printk);