From: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: inject caller information into the body of message
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 13:32:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACT4Y+aER3O2x2ApM=MVFoFXhp_T_rUeyG9CBx031qyH0voSRg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180620110759.GD444@jagdpanzerIV>
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 1:07 PM, Sergey Senozhatsky
<sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> wrote:
> On (06/20/18 11:31), Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>> > BTW, pr_cont() handling is not so simple when we are in printk_safe()
>> > context. Unlike vprintk_emit() [normal printk], we don't use any
>> > dedicated pr_cont() buffer in printk_safe. So, at a glance, I suspect
>> > that injecting context info at every printk_safe_log_store() call for
>> > `for (...) pr_cont()' loop is going to produce something like this:
>> > I<10> 23 I<10> 43 I<10> 47 ....
>> >
>> > // Hmm, maybe the line will endup having two prefixes. Once
>> > // from printk_safe_log_store, the other from normal printk
>> > // log_store().
>> >
>> > While the same `for (...) pr_cont()' called from normal printk() context
>> > will produce
>> > I<10> 32 43 47 ....
>> >
>> > It could be that I'm wrong.
>> > Tetsuo, have you tested pr_cont() from printk_safe() context?
>>
>>
>> So this is another reason to get rid of pr_cont entirely, right?
>
> Getting rid of pr_cont() from important output would be totally cool.
> Quoting Linus:
>
> Only acceptable use of continuations is basically boot-time testing,
> when you do things like
>
> printk("Testing feature XYZ..");
> this_may_blow_up_because_of_hw_bugs();
> printk(KERN_CONT " ... ok\n");
>
>
> I can recall at least 4 attempts when people tried to introduce new pr_cont()
> or some concept with similar functionality to pr_cont(), but SMP safe. We
> brought the first one - per-CPU pr_cont() buffers - to KS several years ago
> but Linus didn't like it. Then there was a buffered printk() mode patch from
> Tetsuo, then a solution from Steven, then I had my second try with a
> soft-of-pr_cont() replacement.
>
> So, if we could get rid of pr_cont() from the most important parts
> (instruction dumps, etc) then I would just vote to leave pr_cont()
> alone and avoid any handling of it in printk context tracking. Simply
> because we wouldn't care about pr_cont(). This also could simplify
> Tetsuo's patch significantly.
Sounds good to me.
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[not found] <201804232233.CIC65675.OJSOMFQOFFHVtL@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
[not found] ` <CACT4Y+boyw_Qy=y-iTnsKZrtTgF0Hk3nHN_xtqUdX4etgiYDQw@mail.gmail.com>
2018-04-24 1:33 ` printk feature for syzbot? Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-04-24 14:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-04-26 10:06 ` Petr Mladek
2018-05-10 4:22 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-05-10 11:30 ` Petr Mladek
2018-05-10 12:11 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-05-10 14:22 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-05-10 14:50 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-05-11 1:45 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
[not found] ` <201805110238.w4B2cIGH079602@www262.sakura.ne.jp>
2018-05-11 6:21 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-05-11 9:17 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2018-05-11 9:50 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-05-11 11:58 ` [PATCH] printk: inject caller information into the body of message Tetsuo Handa
2018-05-17 11:21 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-05-17 11:52 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-05-18 12:15 ` Petr Mladek
2018-05-18 12:25 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2018-05-18 12:54 ` Petr Mladek
2018-05-18 13:08 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2018-05-24 2:21 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-05-23 10:19 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-05-24 2:14 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-05-26 6:36 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2018-06-20 5:44 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2018-06-20 8:31 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-06-20 8:45 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2018-06-20 9:06 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-06-20 9:18 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-06-20 9:31 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2018-06-20 11:07 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-06-20 11:32 ` Dmitry Vyukov [this message]
2018-06-20 13:06 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-06-22 13:06 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-06-25 1:41 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-06-25 9:36 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2018-06-27 10:29 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-09-10 11:20 ` Alexander Potapenko
2018-09-12 6:53 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-12 16:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-13 7:12 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-13 12:26 ` Petr Mladek
2018-09-13 14:28 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-14 1:22 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-14 2:15 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-14 6:57 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-14 10:37 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-09-14 11:50 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-14 12:03 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-09-14 12:22 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-19 11:02 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-09-24 8:11 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-09-27 16:10 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-09-28 9:02 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-28 9:09 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-28 11:01 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-09-29 10:51 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-29 11:15 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-01 2:37 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-10-01 2:58 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-10-01 11:21 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-02 6:38 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-10-08 10:31 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-08 16:03 ` Petr Mladek
2018-10-08 20:48 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-09 14:52 ` Petr Mladek
2018-10-09 21:19 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-10 10:14 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-11 10:20 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-11 13:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-10-08 15:43 ` Petr Mladek
2018-09-28 8:56 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-28 11:21 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-09-29 11:13 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-29 11:39 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-01 5:52 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-10-01 8:37 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-10-01 18:06 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-14 1:12 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-14 1:55 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-06-21 8:29 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-06-20 9:30 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2018-06-20 11:19 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-06-20 11:25 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2018-06-20 11:37 ` Fengguang Wu
2018-06-20 12:31 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2018-06-20 12:41 ` Fengguang Wu
2018-06-20 12:45 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2018-06-20 12:48 ` Fengguang Wu
2018-05-11 13:37 ` printk feature for syzbot? Steven Rostedt
2018-05-15 5:20 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-05-15 14:39 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-05-11 11:02 ` [PATCH] printk: fix possible reuse of va_list variable Tetsuo Handa
2018-05-11 11:27 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-05-17 11:57 ` Petr Mladek
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