linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4 v6] Avoid softlockups in console

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Message-Id: <20130821142723.5fd8c0b0062b35ee83a68dcc@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 21 Aug 2013 14:27:23 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, mhocko@...e.cz, hare@...e.de,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4 v6] Avoid softlockups in console_unlock()

On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:08:28 +0200 Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> wrote:

> These patches avoid softlockups when a CPU gets caught in console_unlock() for
> a long time during heavy printing from other CPU. As is discussed in patch 3/4
> it isn't enough to just silence the watchdog because if CPU spends too long in
> console_unlock() also RCU will complain, other CPUs can be blocked waiting for
> printing CPU to process IPI, and even disk can be offlined because commands
> couldn't be delivered to it for too long.
> 
> This patch series solves the problem by stopping printing in console_unlock()
> after 1000 characters and the printing is postponed to irq work. To avoid
> hogging a single CPU (irq work gets processed on the same CPU where it was
> queued so it doesn't really help to reduce the printing load on that CPU) we
> introduce a new type of lazy irq work - IRQ_WORK_UNBOUND - which can be
> processed by any CPU.

I still hate the patchset :(

Remind us why we need this?  Whose kernel is spewing so much logging and why?
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