linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v1 00/25] printk: new implementation

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Message-ID: <20200127123249.t7agkht3ddgetfhf@pathway.suse.cz>
Date:   Mon, 27 Jan 2020 13:32:49 +0100
From:   Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
To:     Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@...adit-jv.com>
Cc:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
        Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@...esas.com>,
        Andrew Gabbasov <andrew_gabbasov@...tor.com>,
        Sanjeev Chugh <sanjeev_chugh@...tor.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Daniel Wang <wonderfly@...gle.com>,
        Dean Jenkins <dean_jenkins@...tor.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@...bosch.com>,
        Alan Cox <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        Peter Feiner <pfeiner@...gle.com>,
        "open list:SERIAL DRIVERS" <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Eugeniu Rosca <roscaeugeniu@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 00/25] printk: new implementation

On Fri 2020-01-24 17:09:29, Eugeniu Rosca wrote:
> Hi Geert,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 08:48:12PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 5:59 PM Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@...adit-jv.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 08:31:44AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 3:34 AM Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@...adit-jv.com> wrote:
> > > > > So, what's specific to R-Car3, based on my testing, is that the issue
> > > > > can only be reproduced if the printk storm originates on CPU0
> 
> Slight amendment the above statement. Below results are got on R-Car
> H3ULCB running renesas-drivers-2020-01-14-v5.5-rc6 (cX stands for CPUx,
> whitespace stands for clean audio, '!' stands for distorted audio):
> 
>                   printk @:
>                   c0 c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6 c7
> speaker-test @ c0 !
>                c1 !  !
>                c2 !     !
>                c3 !        !
>                c4 !           !
>                c5 !              !
>                c6 !                 !
>                c7 !                    !
> 
> One can see two patterns in the chart. The audio has glitches whenever:
>  - printk and the audio application run on the same CPU, or:
>  - printk runs on CPU0

The proper longterm solution seems to be offloading printk console
handling to a kthread so that it can be bound to a particular CPU
and does not block audio.

Anyway, there is a question whether you really need to send all messages
via the serial console. It might make sense to filter less important
messages using "loglevel=" or "quiet" kernel parameters. The full
log can be read later from userspace (dmesg, syslog, /dev/kmsg).
Filtering can get disabled when debugging non-booting kernel.
In this case, a distorted audio is the least problem.

Best Regards,
Petr