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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: printk meeting at LPC
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 22:08:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190917220849.17a1226a@oasis.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190918012546.GA12090@jagdpanzerIV>

On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 10:25:46 +0900
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> wrote:

> On (09/13/19 15:26), John Ogness wrote:
> > 2. A kernel thread will be created for each registered console, each
> > responsible for being the sole printers to their respective
> > consoles. With this, console printing is _fully_ decoupled from printk()
> > callers.  
> 
> sysrq over serial?
> 
> What we currently have is hacky, but, as usual, is a "best effort":
> 
> 	>> serial driver IRQ  
> 
> 	serial_handle_irq()		[console driver]
> 	 uart_handle_sysrq_char()
> 	  handle_sysrq()
> 	   printk()
> 	    call_console_drivers()
> 	     serial_write()		[re-enter console driver]
> 
> offloading this to kthread may be unreliable.

But we also talked about an "emergency flush" which will not wait for
the kthreads to finish and just output everything it can find in the
printk buffers (expecting that the consoles have an "emergency"
handler. We can add a sysrq to do an emergency flush.

-- Steve


  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-18  2:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 131+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-07 22:26 [RFC PATCH v4 0/9] printk: new ringbuffer implementation John Ogness
2019-08-07 22:26 ` [RFC PATCH v4 1/9] printk-rb: add a new printk " John Ogness
2019-08-20  8:15   ` numlist_pop(): " Petr Mladek
2019-08-21  5:41     ` John Ogness
2019-09-04 12:19     ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-20  8:22   ` assign_desc() barriers: " Petr Mladek
2019-08-20 14:14     ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-21  5:52       ` John Ogness
2019-08-22 11:53         ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-25  2:06           ` John Ogness
2019-08-26  8:21             ` John Ogness
2019-08-20  8:55   ` comments style: " Petr Mladek
2019-08-20  9:27     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-08-21  5:46       ` John Ogness
2019-08-22 13:50         ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-22 17:38           ` Andrea Parri
2019-08-23 10:47             ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-23 14:27               ` Andrea Parri
2019-08-23  9:49           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-08-23  5:54         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-08-23 10:29           ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-21  5:42     ` John Ogness
2019-08-22 12:44       ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-20 13:50   ` dataring_push() barriers " Petr Mladek
2019-08-25  2:42     ` John Ogness
2019-08-27 14:36       ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-28 13:43         ` John Ogness
2019-08-20 15:12   ` datablock reuse races " Petr Mladek
2019-08-23  9:21   ` numlist_push() barriers " Petr Mladek
2019-08-26  8:34     ` Andrea Parri
2019-08-26  8:43       ` Andrea Parri
2019-08-26 14:10       ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-26 16:01         ` Andrea Parri
2019-08-26 22:36     ` John Ogness
2019-08-27  7:40       ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-27 14:28         ` John Ogness
2019-08-27 15:07           ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-28 10:24             ` John Ogness
2019-08-23 17:18   ` numlist API " Petr Mladek
2019-08-26 23:57     ` John Ogness
2019-08-27 13:03       ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-28  7:13         ` John Ogness
2019-08-28  8:58           ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-28 14:03             ` John Ogness
2019-08-29 11:28               ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-03  7:58         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-08-30 14:48   ` dataring " Petr Mladek
2019-08-07 22:26 ` [RFC PATCH v4 2/9] printk-rb: add test module John Ogness
2019-08-07 22:26 ` [RFC PATCH v4 3/9] printk-rb: fix missing includes/exports John Ogness
2019-08-07 22:26 ` [RFC PATCH v4 4/9] printk-rb: initialize new descriptors as invalid John Ogness
2019-08-20  9:23   ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-20 10:16     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-08-21  5:56     ` John Ogness
2019-08-07 22:26 ` [RFC PATCH v4 5/9] printk-rb: remove extra data buffer size allocation John Ogness
2019-08-07 22:26 ` [RFC PATCH v4 6/9] printk-rb: adjust test module ringbuffer sizes John Ogness
2019-08-19 21:29   ` [PATCH] printk-rb: fix test module macro usage John Ogness
2019-08-07 22:26 ` [RFC PATCH v4 7/9] printk-rb: increase size of seq and size variables John Ogness
2019-08-07 22:26 ` [RFC PATCH v4 8/9] printk-rb: new functionality to support printk John Ogness
2019-08-20  9:59   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-08-21  5:47     ` John Ogness
2019-08-07 22:26 ` [RFC PATCH v4 9/9] printk: use a new ringbuffer implementation John Ogness
2019-08-08 19:07   ` Linus Torvalds
2019-08-08 22:55     ` John Ogness
2019-08-08 23:33       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-08-08 23:45         ` Steven Rostedt
2019-08-09  0:21           ` Linus Torvalds
2019-08-09  0:48             ` Steven Rostedt
2019-08-09  1:15               ` Linus Torvalds
2019-08-09 11:15                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-08-09 16:00                   ` Linus Torvalds
2019-08-09 20:07                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-08-09 20:20                       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-08-09  6:14     ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-09  7:08       ` John Ogness
2019-08-09 15:57       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-08-10  5:53         ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-09-10  3:19           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-08-12  9:54       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-08-16  5:46   ` Dave Young
2019-08-16  5:54     ` Dave Young
2019-08-16  9:40     ` John Ogness
2019-09-04 12:35 ` [RFC PATCH v4 0/9] printk: " Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-05 13:05   ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-05 14:31     ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-05 15:38       ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-09-05 16:11         ` Steven Rostedt
2019-09-05 21:10           ` John Ogness
2019-09-06  9:39           ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-09 14:11           ` printk meeting at LPC Thomas Gleixner
2019-09-13 13:26             ` John Ogness
2019-09-13 14:48               ` Daniel Vetter
2019-09-15 13:47                 ` John Ogness
2019-09-16  8:44                   ` Daniel Vetter
2019-09-16  4:30               ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-09-16 10:46                 ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-16 13:43                   ` Steven Rostedt
2019-09-16 14:28                     ` John Ogness
2019-09-17  8:11                       ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-17  7:52                     ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-17 13:02                       ` Steven Rostedt
2019-09-17 13:12                         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-09-17 13:37                           ` Steven Rostedt
2019-09-17 14:08                             ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-09-17  7:51                   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-18  1:25               ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-18  2:08                 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2019-09-18  2:36                   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-18  5:19                     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-18  7:42                       ` John Ogness
2019-09-18  8:10                         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-18  9:05                           ` John Ogness
2019-09-18  9:11                             ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-18 16:41                             ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-18 16:48                               ` Steven Rostedt
2019-09-24 14:24                                 ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-19  8:06                         ` Daniel Vetter
2019-09-18  7:33                     ` John Ogness
2019-09-18  8:08                       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-10-04 14:48               ` Tony Asleson
2019-10-07 12:01                 ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-06  9:06       ` [RFC PATCH v4 0/9] printk: new ringbuffer implementation Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-06 10:09         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-06 10:49           ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-06 13:44             ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-06 12:42         ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-06 14:01           ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-06 14:22             ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-06 19:53             ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-06 22:47             ` John Ogness
2019-09-08 22:18             ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-10  3:22             ` Sergey Senozhatsky

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