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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Dmitry Monakhov <dmtrmonakhov@yandex-team.ru>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/watchdog: flush all printk nmi buffers when hardlockup detected
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 21:49:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200211214958.5d8f4004@rorschach.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200212011551.GA13208@google.com>

On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 10:15:51 +0900
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> wrote:

> On (20/02/10 12:48), Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> > 
> > In NMI context printk() could save messages into per-cpu buffers and
> > schedule flush by irq_work when IRQ are unblocked. This means message
> > about hardlockup appears in kernel log only when/if lockup is gone.
> > 
> > Comment in irq_work_queue_on() states that remote IPI aren't NMI safe
> > thus printk() cannot schedule flush work to another cpu.
> > 
> > This patch adds simple atomic counter of detected hardlockups and
> > flushes all per-cpu printk buffers in context softlockup watchdog
> > at any other cpu when it sees changes of this counter.  
> 
> Petr, could you remind me, why do we do PRINTK_NMI_DIRECT_CONTEXT_MASK
> only from ftrace?

Could it be because its from ftrace_dump() which can spit out millions
of lines from NMI context?

-- Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-12  2:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-10  9:48 [PATCH] kernel/watchdog: flush all printk nmi buffers when hardlockup detected Konstantin Khlebnikov
2020-02-10 22:51 ` Andrew Morton
2020-02-11 11:01   ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2020-02-11  8:14 ` Kirill Tkhai
2020-02-11 12:36   ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2020-02-12 14:54     ` Petr Mladek
2020-02-13 13:05       ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2020-02-12  1:15 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-02-12  2:49   ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2020-02-12  3:04     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-02-12  3:27       ` Steven Rostedt
2020-02-12 14:18   ` Petr Mladek

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