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Message-Id: <20220201185802.98345-1-stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2022 10:57:58 -0800
From: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@...cle.com>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH v3 0/4] printk: reduce deadlocks during panic
When a caller writes heavily to the kernel log (e.g. writing to
/dev/kmsg in a loop) while another panics, there's currently a high
likelihood of a deadlock (see patch 2 for the full description of this
deadlock).
The principle fix is to disable the optimistic spin once panic_cpu is
set, so the panic CPU doesn't spin waiting for a halted CPU to hand over
the console_sem.
However, this exposed us to a livelock situation, where the panic CPU
holds the console_sem, and another CPU could fill up the log buffer
faster than the consoles could drain it, preventing the panic from
progressing and halting the other CPUs. To avoid this, patch 3 adds a
mechanism to suppress printk (from non-panic-CPU) during panic, if we
reach a threshold of dropped messages.
A major goal with all of these patches is to try to decrease the
likelihood that another CPU is holding the console_sem when we halt it
in panic(). This reduces the odds of needing to break locks and
potentially encountering further deadlocks with the console drivers.
To test, I use the following script, kmsg_panic.sh:
#!/bin/bash
date
# 991 chars (based on log buffer size):
chars="$(printf 'a%.0s' {1..991})"
while :; do
echo $chars > /dev/kmsg
done &
echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger &
date
exit
I defined a hang as any time the system did not reboot to a login prompt
on the serial console within 60 seconds. Here are the statistics on
hangs using this script, before and after the patch.
before: 776 hangs / 1484 trials - 52.3%
after : 0 hangs / 15k trials - 0.0%
v3:
Some mild style changes, none of which affect testing (which has run
continuously and is now over 15 thousand trials without a hang!)
v2:
Each patch has minor updates from code reviews. I've re-done testing and
updated the above statistics. Exact changes are in each patch.
Stephen Brennan (4):
printk: Add panic_in_progress helper
printk: disable optimistic spin during panic
printk: Avoid livelock with heavy printk during panic
printk: Drop console_sem during panic
kernel/printk/printk.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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2.30.2
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