linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] scsi: Introduce sdev_printk_ratelimited to throttle frequent printk

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Date:   Mon, 2 Apr 2018 11:10:32 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:     Wen Yang <wen.yang99@....com.cn>
Cc:     jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, martin.petersen@...cle.com,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Bart.VanAssche@....com, pmladek@...e.com,
        sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com, tj@...nel.org,
        jiang.biao2@....com.cn, zhong.weidong@....com.cn,
        Tan Hu <tan.hu@....com.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] scsi: Introduce sdev_printk_ratelimited to throttle
 frequent printk

Hello,

On (04/02/18 09:58), Wen Yang wrote:
> There would be so many same lines printed by frequent printk if one 
> disk went wrong, like,
> [  546.185242] sd 0:1:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
> [  546.185258] sd 0:1:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
> [  546.185280] sd 0:1:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
> [  546.185307] sd 0:1:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
> [  546.185334] sd 0:1:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
> [  546.185364] sd 0:1:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
> [  546.185390] sd 0:1:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
> [  546.185410] sd 0:1:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
> For slow serial console, the frequent printk may be blocked for a 
> long time, and if any spin_lock has been acquired before the printk 
> like in scsi_request_fn, watchdog could be triggered.

Did you test the patch? Rate limiting does not completely remove
printk calls. printk is still there, in a loop under spin_lock.
A big enough I/O request queue can cause the same lockup problems.

	-ss