linux-kernel - Re: [Query] Preemption (hogging) of the work handler

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20160712135640.GB8597@pathway.suse.cz>
Date:	Tue, 12 Jul 2016 15:56:40 +0200
From:	Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
To:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	vlevenetz@...sol.com, vaibhav.hiremath@...aro.org,
	alex.elder@...aro.org, johan@...nel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	rostedt@...dmis.org,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
	Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Query] Preemption (hogging) of the work handler

On Tue 2016-07-12 06:02:31, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 12-07-16, 14:24, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Monday, July 11, 2016 03:46:01 PM Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > > Yeah and I am not sure how should I go ahead about this issue now :)
> > 
> > FWIW, I think the reason why the "synchronous printk" works is because after
> > disabling the non-boot CPU, the only remaining one disables local interrupts
> > and won't do any async work any more until resume.
> 
> Right. After disabling interrupts, the other printk messages gets
> printed only after the system resumes. I am not that worried about
> printk not working after that point, but on how does asynchronous
> printing affect the system to crash or come to a complete hang?

Ah, I have missed that the hang happens only when you use the async
printk patchset.

I wonder if it is somehow related to the commit 8d91f8b15361dfb438ab
("printk: do cond_resched() between lines while outputting to
consoles"). A process (printk thread) might sleep with taken
console_sem. Then suspend_console() might be unable to
get the semaphore in console_lock() and might deadlock.

Does it help to enable "no_console_suspend" please?


Best Regards,
Petr