Hello Jan, On (03/29/16 11:14), Jan Kara wrote: > On Fri 25-03-16 00:43:22, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > > @@ -1655,6 +1670,14 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk_emit(int facility, int level, > > raw_spin_lock(&logbuf_lock); > > logbuf_cpu = this_cpu; > > > > + /* > > + * Set printing kthread sleep condition early, under the > > + * logbuf_lock, so it (if RUNNING) will go to console_lock() > > + * and spin on logbuf_lock. > > + */ > > + if (!in_panic && printk_kthread && !need_flush_console) > > + need_flush_console = true; > > + > > if (unlikely(recursion_bug)) { > > static const char recursion_msg[] = > > "BUG: recent printk recursion!"; > > I like the cleaned up need_flush_console handling! Just a suggestion: It > may be more logical to handle need_flush_console setting under logbuf_lock > but after we actually store the message in the buffer, not before. Doesn't > matter for correctness now but may be more future-proof.
I wanted to set it asap (when we know for sure that we will log_store()), to have a bit more chances to avoid schedule() in printing thread. well, that's just several log_store()-s, not a big deal, so I guess I can move it to: + if (...) + need_flush_console = true; logbuf_cpu = UINT_MAX; raw_spin_unlock(&logbuf_lock); lockdep_on(); local_irq_restore(flags); -ss