From: Daniel Wang <wonderfly@google.com>
To: sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
rostedt@goodmis.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Alexander.Levin@microsoft.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
byungchul.park@lge.com, dave.hansen@intel.com,
hannes@cmpxchg.org, jack@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
mhocko@kernel.org, pavel@ucw.cz,
penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp, peterz@infradead.org,
tj@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, vbabka@suse.cz,
Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>
Subject: Re: 4.14 backport request for dbdda842fe96f: "printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes"
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2018 11:09:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJmjG2-e6f6p=pE5uDECMc=W=81SYyGCmoabrC1ePXwL5DFdSw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181004085515.GC12879@jagdpanzerIV>
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Just got back from vacation. Thanks for the continued discussion. Just so
I understand the current state. Looks like we've got a pretty good explanation
of what's going on (though not completely sure), and backporting Steven's
patches is still the way to go? I see that Sergey had sent an RFC series
for similar things. Are those trying to solve the deadlock problem in a
different way?On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 1:55 AM Sergey Senozhatsky
<sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On (10/04/18 10:36), Petr Mladek wrote:
> >
> > This looks like a reasonable explanation of what is happening here.
> > It also explains why the console owner logic helped.
>
> Well, I'm still a bit puzzled, frankly speaking. I've two theories.
>
> Theory #1 [most likely]
>
> Steven is a wizard and his code cures whatever problem we throw it at.
>
> Theory #2
>
> console_sem hand over actually spreads print out, so we don't have one CPU
> doing all the printing job. Instead every CPU prints its backtrace, while the
> CPU which issued all_cpus_backtrace() waits for them. So all_cpus_backtrace()
> still has to wait for NR_CPUS * strlen(bakctrace), which still probably
> truggers NMI panic on it at some point. The panic CPU send out stop IPI, then
> it waits for foreign CPUs to ACK stop IPI request - for 10 seconds. So each
> CPU prints its backtrace, then ACK stop IPI. So when panic CPU proceeds with
> flush_on_panic() and emergency_reboot() uart_port->lock is unlocked. Without
> the patch we probably declare NMI panic on the CPU which does all the printing
> work, and panic sometimes jumps in when that CPU is in busy in
> serial8250_console_write(), holding the uart_port->lock. So we can't re-enter
> the 8250 driver from panic CPU and we can't reboot the system. In other
> words... Steven is a wizard.
>
> > > serial8250_console_write()
> > > {
> > > if (port->sysrq)
> > > locked = 0;
> > > else if (oops_in_progress)
> > > locked = spin_trylock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
> > > else
> > > spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
> > >
> > > ...
> > > uart_console_write(port, s, count, serial8250_console_putchar);
> > > ...
> > >
> > > if (locked)
> > > spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);
> > > }
> > >
> > > Now... the problem. A theory, in fact.
> > > panic() sets oops_in_progress back to zero - bust_spinlocks(0) - too soon.
> >
> > I see your point. I am just a bit scared of this way. Ignoring locks
> > is a dangerous and painful approach in general.
>
> Well, I agree. But 8250 is not the only console which does ignore
> uart_port lock state sometimes. Otherwise sysrq would be totally unreliable,
> including emergency reboot. So it's sort of how it has been for quite some
> time, I guess. We are in panic(), it's over, so we probably can ignore
> uart_port->lock at this point.
>
> -ss
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Best,
Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-21 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-27 19:46 4.14 backport request for dbdda842fe96f: "printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes" Daniel Wang
2018-10-01 19:23 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-10-01 20:13 ` Pavel Machek
2018-10-01 20:21 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-10-01 20:38 ` Daniel Wang
2018-10-01 20:29 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-10-01 20:37 ` Daniel Wang
2018-10-01 20:40 ` Sasha Levin
2018-10-02 8:42 ` Petr Mladek
2018-10-02 17:21 ` Daniel Wang
2018-10-03 0:15 ` Daniel Wang
2018-10-03 1:23 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-10-03 9:14 ` Petr Mladek
2018-10-03 17:16 ` Daniel Wang
2018-10-03 17:37 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-10-03 18:37 ` Daniel Wang
2018-10-03 23:37 ` Daniel Wang
2018-10-04 7:44 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-10-04 8:05 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-10-04 8:36 ` Petr Mladek
2018-10-04 8:55 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-10-21 18:09 ` Daniel Wang [this message]
2018-10-22 9:32 ` Petr Mladek
2018-10-22 10:09 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-11-01 16:05 ` Daniel Wang
2018-11-09 6:47 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-12-12 1:16 ` Daniel Wang
2018-12-12 5:21 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-12-12 6:08 ` Daniel Wang
2018-12-12 6:28 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-12-12 6:48 ` Sasha Levin
2018-12-12 8:10 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-12-12 13:36 ` Petr Mladek
2018-12-12 13:59 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-12-12 17:43 ` Sasha Levin
2018-12-12 20:11 ` Daniel Wang
2018-12-12 21:43 ` Sasha Levin
2018-12-12 21:49 ` Daniel Wang
2018-12-12 21:52 ` Sasha Levin
2018-12-12 21:56 ` Daniel Wang
2018-12-13 0:40 ` Daniel Wang
2018-12-13 2:27 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-12-13 2:39 ` Daniel Wang
2018-12-13 9:59 ` Petr Mladek
2018-12-13 14:29 ` Sasha Levin
2018-12-13 2:07 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-12-28 0:16 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-12-28 8:27 ` Greg KH
2018-12-28 22:03 ` Daniel Wang
2018-12-30 3:03 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-10-04 7:49 ` Petr Mladek
2018-10-02 8:16 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
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