On (06/27/18 16:20), Petr Mladek wrote:
> +/*
> + * Marks a code that might produce many messages in NMI context
> + * and the risk of losing them is more critical than eventual
> + * reordering.
> + *
> + * It has effect only when called in NMI context. Then printk()
> + * will try to store the messages into the main logbuf directly
> + * and use the per-CPU buffers only as a fallback when the lock
> + * is not available.
> + */
> +void printk_nmi_direct_enter(void)
> +{
> +     if (this_cpu_read(printk_context) & PRINTK_NMI_CONTEXT_MASK)
> +             this_cpu_or(printk_context, PRINTK_NMI_DIRECT_CONTEXT_MASK);
> +}

A side note: This nesting also handles recursive printk-s for us.

NMI:
        printk_nmi_enter
        ftrace_dump
         printk_nmi_direct_enter
          vprintk_func
           spin_lock(logbuf_lock)
            vprintk_store
             vsprintf
              WARN_ON
               vprintk_func
                vprintk_nmi

>  __printf(1, 0) int vprintk_func(const char *fmt, va_list args)
>  {
> +     /*
> +      * Try to use the main logbuf even in NMI. But avoid calling console
> +      * drivers that might have their own locks.
> +      */
> +     if ((this_cpu_read(printk_context) & PRINTK_NMI_DIRECT_CONTEXT_MASK) &&
> +         raw_spin_trylock(&logbuf_lock)) {
> +             int len;
> +
> +             len = vprintk_store(0, LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT, NULL, 0, fmt, args);
> +             raw_spin_unlock(&logbuf_lock);
> +             defer_console();
> +             return len;
> +     }

So, maybe, something a bit better than defer_console().

Otherwise,
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhat...@gmail.com>

        -ss

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