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Message-ID: <ZDfFZckqBwchfib5@alley>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023 11:03:33 +0200
From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
To: John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH printk v1 15/18] printk: nobkl: Stop threads on
shutdown/reboot
On Thu 2023-03-02 21:02:15, John Ogness wrote:
> Register a syscore_ops shutdown function to stop all threaded
> printers on shutdown/reboot. This allows printk to transition back
> to atomic printing in order to provide a robust mechanism for
> outputting the final messages.
>
> --- a/kernel/printk/printk_nobkl.c
> +++ b/kernel/printk/printk_nobkl.c
> @@ -1763,3 +1764,33 @@ void cons_nobkl_cleanup(struct console *con)
> cons_state_set(con, CON_STATE_REQ, &state);
> cons_free_percpu_data(con);
> }
> +
> +/**
> + * printk_kthread_shutdown - shutdown all threaded printers
> + *
> + * On system shutdown all threaded printers are stopped. This allows printk
> + * to transition back to atomic printing, thus providing a robust mechanism
> + * for the final shutdown/reboot messages to be output.
> + */
> +static void printk_kthread_shutdown(void)
> +{
> + struct console *con;
> +
> + console_list_lock();
> + for_each_console(con) {
> + if (con->flags & CON_NO_BKL)
> + cons_kthread_stop(con);
> + }
> + console_list_unlock();
It would make sense to explicitly flush the consoles after stopping
the kthreads. There might be pending messages...
> +}
> +
> +static struct syscore_ops printk_syscore_ops = {
> + .shutdown = printk_kthread_shutdown,
> +};
> +
> +static int __init printk_init_ops(void)
> +{
> + register_syscore_ops(&printk_syscore_ops);
> + return 0;
> +}
> +device_initcall(printk_init_ops);
Otherwise it looks good.
Best Regards,
Petr
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