kernel_optimize_test/kernel
Vitaly Kuznetsov 08d78658f3 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>
2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
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bpf
configs
debug
events Merge branch 'for-4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2015-11-05 14:51:32 -08:00
gcov
irq
livepatch
locking mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
power mm, page_alloc: rename __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
printk printk: prevent userland from spoofing kernel messages 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
rcu
sched s390: A bunch of fixes and optimizations for interrupt and time 2015-11-05 16:26:26 -08:00
time
trace
.gitignore
acct.c
async.c
audit_fsnotify.c
audit_tree.c
audit_watch.c
audit.c mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
audit.h
auditfilter.c
auditsc.c
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c
cgroup_freezer.c
cgroup_pids.c
cgroup.c mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
compat.c
configs.c
context_tracking.c
cpu_pm.c
cpu.c
cpuset.c Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2015-11-05 23:10:54 -08:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c
delayacct.c
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c
extable.c
fork.c Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2015-11-05 23:10:54 -08:00
freezer.c
futex_compat.c
futex.c
groups.c
hung_task.c
irq_work.c
jump_label.c
kallsyms.c
kcmp.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
kexec_core.c kexec: use file name as the output message prefix 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
kexec_file.c kexec: use file name as the output message prefix 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
kexec_internal.h
kexec.c kexec: use file name as the output message prefix 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
kmod.c
kprobes.c
ksysfs.c
kthread.c
latencytop.c
Makefile
membarrier.c
memremap.c
module_signing.c
module-internal.h
module.c
notifier.c
nsproxy.c
padata.c
panic.c panic: release stale console lock to always get the logbuf printed out 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
params.c module: export param_free_charp() 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
pid_namespace.c
pid.c
profile.c
ptrace.c
range.c
reboot.c
relay.c
resource.c
seccomp.c
signal.c coredump: ensure all coredumping tasks have SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
smp.c mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
smpboot.c
smpboot.h
softirq.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c
sys_ni.c mm: mlock: add new mlock system call 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
sys.c pidns: fix set/getpriority and ioprio_set/get in PRIO_USER mode 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
sysctl_binary.c
sysctl.c kernel/watchdog.c: add sysctl knob hardlockup_panic 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
task_work.c
taskstats.c
test_kprobes.c
torture.c
tracepoint.c
tsacct.c
uid16.c
up.c
user_namespace.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c
utsname_sysctl.c
utsname.c
watchdog.c kernel/watchdog.c: fix race between proc_watchdog_thresh() and watchdog_timer_fn() 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
workqueue_internal.h
workqueue.c