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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH printk v2 2/5] printk: remove safe buffers
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 11:14:18 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YGZ9+kfQKxASmVDR@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YGXV8LJarjUJDhvy@alley>

On (21/04/01 16:17), Petr Mladek wrote:
> > For the long term, we should introduce a printk-context API that allows
> > callers to perfectly pack their multi-line output into a single
> > entry. We discussed [0][1] this back in August 2020.
> 
> We need a "short" term solution. There are currently 3 solutions:
> 
> 1. Keep nmi_safe() and all the hacks around.
> 
> 2. Serialize nmi_cpu_backtrace() by a spin lock and later by
>    the special lock used also by atomic consoles.
> 
> 3. Tell complaining people how to sort the messed logs.

Are we talking about nmi_cpu_backtrace()->dump_stack() or some
other path?

dump_stack() seems to be already serialized by `dump_lock`. Hmm,
show_regs() is not serialized, seems like it should be under the
same `dump_lock` as dump_stack().

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-02  2:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-30 15:35 [PATCH printk v2 0/5] printk: remove safe buffers John Ogness
2021-03-30 15:35 ` [PATCH printk v2 1/5] printk: track/limit recursion John Ogness
2021-04-01 10:00   ` Petr Mladek
2021-04-02  2:03     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-03-30 15:35 ` [PATCH printk v2 2/5] printk: remove safe buffers John Ogness
2021-03-31  7:59   ` John Ogness
2021-04-01 12:21   ` Petr Mladek
2021-04-01 13:19     ` John Ogness
2021-04-01 14:17       ` Petr Mladek
2021-04-02  2:14         ` Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]
2021-04-06 11:17           ` Petr Mladek
2021-04-06 11:01         ` John Ogness
2021-03-30 15:35 ` [PATCH printk v2 3/5] printk: remove NMI tracking John Ogness
2021-04-01 14:37   ` Petr Mladek
2021-03-30 15:35 ` [PATCH printk v2 4/5] printk: convert @syslog_lock to mutex John Ogness
2021-04-01 15:13   ` Petr Mladek
2021-03-30 15:35 ` [PATCH printk v2 5/5] printk: syslog: close window between wait and read John Ogness

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