On Wed 2015-07-08 15:20:01, Gavin Hu wrote:
> Hi,
> You know, a simple pirntk like printk("hello world!\n") via serial
> console may consume 21 seconds above, because any printk is obligated to
> pump out all the characters in the log buffer
> with preempt disable until it is empty (vprintk_emit() and
> console_unlock()), not just "hello world!" itself.
>
> And in the end, long time preempt disable may result in the softlock/RCU
> stall issues. Some systems are configured to trigger a kernel panic when
> meet softlock/ RCU stall. So heavy printk may result in kernel panic.
> Usually, the solution is to remove related pritnks or limit the printk
> times. So sometimes, the low-level developers have to handle various heavy
> pirntk issues.
>
> Why don't make the printk mechanism more flexible and configurable, for
> example, just pump out 1000 messages per printk calling, to avoid preempt
> disable with a long time?
> And we can disable or enable this feature by a proc interface. Be default,
> this feature is disabled. So it doesn't influence boot-time message printk.
>
> Anyway, we maybe can give the low-level developers more options.
>
> Any comments are welcome!
I add Jack into CC because he made several attempts to address this
issue in the past. For example, see
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/26/743
Jack's approach was similar but also tried to schedule further
writing to the console. With your approach, the console might stay
far behind the reality for a long time.
IMHO, we also want to make sure that all messages go out
when the system is panicking.
Best Regards,
Petr
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