From b87f02307d3cfbda768520f0687c51ca77e14fc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Petr Mladek Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 18:28:05 +0200 Subject: printk: Wait for the global console lock when the system is going down There are reports that the console kthreads block the global console lock when the system is going down, for example, reboot, panic. First part of the solution was to block kthreads in these problematic system states so they stopped handling newly added messages. Second part of the solution is to wait when for the kthreads when they are actively printing. It solves the problem when a message was printed before the system entered the problematic state and the kthreads managed to step in. A busy waiting has to be used because panic() can be called in any context and in an unknown state of the scheduler. There must be a timeout because the kthread might get stuck or sleeping and never release the lock. The timeout 10s is an arbitrary value inspired by the softlockup timeout. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220610205038.GA3050413@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAMdYzYpF4FNTBPZsEFeWRuEwSies36QM_As8osPWZSr2q-viEA@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220615162805.27962-3-pmladek@suse.com --- include/linux/printk.h | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/printk.h') diff --git a/include/linux/printk.h b/include/linux/printk.h index cd26aab0ab2a..c1e07c0652c7 100644 --- a/include/linux/printk.h +++ b/include/linux/printk.h @@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ extern void printk_prefer_direct_enter(void); extern void printk_prefer_direct_exit(void); extern bool pr_flush(int timeout_ms, bool reset_on_progress); +extern void try_block_console_kthreads(int timeout_ms); /* * Please don't use printk_ratelimit(), because it shares ratelimiting state @@ -238,6 +239,10 @@ static inline bool pr_flush(int timeout_ms, bool reset_on_progress) return true; } +static inline void try_block_console_kthreads(int timeout_ms) +{ +} + static inline int printk_ratelimit(void) { return 0; -- cgit