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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>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v5 1/3] printk-rb: new printk ringbuffer implementation (writer)
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 09:18:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191203091843.678461e4@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191203011721.GH93017@google.com>

On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 10:17:21 +0900
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > BTW: If I am counting correctly. The ABA problem would happen when
> > > exactly 2^30 (1G) messages is written in the mean time.  
> > 
> > All the ringbuffer code assumes that the use of index numbers handles
> > the ABA problem (i.e. there must not be 1 billion printk's within an
> > NMI). If we want to support 1 billion+ printk's within an NMI, then
> > perhaps the index number should be increased. For 64-bit systems it
> > would be no problem to go to 62 bits. For 32-bit systems, I don't know
> > how well the 64-bit atomic operations are supported.  
> 
> ftrace dumps from NMI (DUMP_ALL type ftrace_dump_on_oops on a $BIG
> machine)? 1G seems large enough, but who knows.

ftrace dump from NMI is the most likely case to hit this, but when that
happens, you are in debugging mode, and the system usually becomes
unreliable at this moment. I agree with Petr, that we should not
complicate the code more to handle this theoretical condition.

-- Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-03 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-28  1:52 [RFC PATCH v5 0/3] printk: new ringbuffer implementation John Ogness
2019-11-28  1:52 ` [RFC PATCH v5 1/3] printk-rb: new printk ringbuffer implementation (writer) John Ogness
2019-12-02 15:48   ` Petr Mladek
2019-12-02 15:59     ` Petr Mladek
2019-12-02 16:37       ` John Ogness
2019-12-03  1:17         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-12-03 14:18           ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2019-12-05 12:01             ` John Ogness
2019-12-03  8:54         ` Petr Mladek
2019-12-03 14:13     ` John Ogness
2019-12-03 14:36       ` Petr Mladek
2019-12-09  9:19     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-12-09  7:42   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-12-09  9:00     ` John Ogness
2019-12-09  9:27   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-12-09  9:34     ` John Ogness
2019-12-21 14:22   ` Andrea Parri
2019-12-23 16:01     ` John Ogness
2020-01-03 10:24       ` Petr Mladek
2020-01-04 14:33         ` Andrea Parri
2019-11-28  1:52 ` [RFC PATCH v5 2/3] printk-rb: new printk ringbuffer implementation (reader) John Ogness
2019-12-03 12:06   ` Petr Mladek
2019-12-03 13:46     ` John Ogness
2019-12-04 12:54       ` Petr Mladek
2019-12-04 13:28         ` John Ogness
2019-12-09  8:43   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-12-09  9:03     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-12-09  9:09     ` John Ogness
2019-11-28  1:52 ` [RFC PATCH v5 3/3] printk-rb: add test module John Ogness
2019-12-09  8:44   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-12-05 13:46 ` [RFC PATCH v5 0/3] printk: new ringbuffer implementation Prarit Bhargava
2019-12-05 14:05   ` John Ogness
2019-12-06 14:16     ` Prarit Bhargava
2020-01-27 12:20 ` Eugeniu Rosca

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