On 2018/11/23 21:46, Petr Mladek wrote:
> I am more and more wondering if the buffered printk is worth
> the effort. The more buffers we use the more we risk that nobody
> would see some important message. Even a part of the line
> might be crucial in some situations.
>
> Steven told me on Plumbers conference that even few initial
> characters saved him a day few times.
Yes, few initial characters of one line might sometimes help.
But emitting one line at a time also helps sometimes; especially
when we need to interpret multiple lines and group these lines from
concurrent printk() callers.
>
>
>> But updating printk() users to always end with '\n' will be preferable.
>
> This sounds like a whack a mole game. If I get it correctly, you write
> that it is "an impossible task for anybody" just few lines above.
Yes, updating printk() users is almost impossible. I think that something
like diff shown below is what we can afford at best. If you believe that
line buffering is wrong, I can tolerate with switching via kernel config
option like CONFIG_DEBUG_AID_FOR_SYZBOT=y.
kernel/printk/printk.c | 263 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
1 file changed, 176 insertions(+), 87 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index 315718b..2276c99 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -584,6 +584,15 @@ static int log_store(int facility, int level,
struct printk_log *msg;
u32 size, pad_len;
u16 trunc_msg_len = 0;
+ static char id[32];
+ u16 id_len;
+
+ if (in_task())
+ id_len = scnprintf(id, sizeof(id), "[T%u] ", current->pid);
+ else
+ id_len = scnprintf(id, sizeof(id), "[C%u] ",
+ raw_smp_processor_id());
+ text_len += id_len;
/* number of '\0' padding bytes to next message */
size = msg_used_size(text_len, dict_len, &pad_len);
@@ -607,12 +616,16 @@ static int log_store(int facility, int level,
log_next_idx = 0;
}
+ text_len -= id_len;
+
/* fill message */
msg = (struct printk_log *)(log_buf + log_next_idx);
- memcpy(log_text(msg), text, text_len);
- msg->text_len = text_len;
+ memcpy(log_text(msg), id, id_len);
+ memcpy(log_text(msg) + id_len, text, text_len);
+ msg->text_len = text_len + id_len;
if (trunc_msg_len) {
- memcpy(log_text(msg) + text_len, trunc_msg, trunc_msg_len);
+ memcpy(log_text(msg) + id_len + text_len, trunc_msg,
+ trunc_msg_len);
msg->text_len += trunc_msg_len;
}
memcpy(log_dict(msg), dict, dict_len);
@@ -620,10 +633,7 @@ static int log_store(int facility, int level,
msg->facility = facility;
msg->level = level & 7;
msg->flags = flags & 0x1f;
- if (ts_nsec > 0)
- msg->ts_nsec = ts_nsec;
- else
- msg->ts_nsec = local_clock();
+ msg->ts_nsec = ts_nsec;
memset(log_dict(msg) + dict_len, 0, pad_len);
msg->len = size;
@@ -1758,87 +1768,154 @@ static inline void printk_delay(void)
}
/*
- * Continuation lines are buffered, and not committed to the record buffer
- * until the line is complete, or a race forces it. The line fragments
- * though, are printed immediately to the consoles to ensure everything has
- * reached the console in case of a kernel crash.
+ * Continuation lines are buffered based on type of context, and not committed
+ * to the record buffer until the line is complete, or a race forces it.
+ *
+ * While this context calculation is not perfect, asking printk() callers to
+ * explicitly pass "struct printk_buffer" (except "context" field) as their
+ * function arguments will require too large tree-wide changes. Therefore,
+ * let's tolerate failing to separate "up to one line of messages", and avoid
+ * bloating kernel code size for addressing infrequently happening races.
*/
-static struct cont {
- char buf[LOG_LINE_MAX];
- size_t len; /* length == 0 means unused buffer */
- struct task_struct *owner; /* task of first print*/
- u64 ts_nsec; /* time of first print */
- u8 level; /* log level of first message */
- u8 facility; /* log facility of first message */
- enum log_flags flags; /* prefix, newline flags */
-} cont;
-
-static void cont_flush(void)
+static inline unsigned long printk_context(void)
{
- if (cont.len == 0)
- return;
-
- log_store(cont.facility, cont.level, cont.flags, cont.ts_nsec,
- NULL, 0, cont.buf, cont.len);
- cont.len = 0;
-}
+ unsigned long base;
-static bool cont_add(int facility, int level, enum log_flags flags, const char
*text, size_t len)
-{
- /* If the line gets too long, split it up in separate records. */
- if (cont.len + len > sizeof(cont.buf)) {
- cont_flush();
- return false;
- }
-
- if (!cont.len) {
- cont.facility = facility;
- cont.level = level;
- cont.owner = current;
- cont.ts_nsec = local_clock();
- cont.flags = flags;
- }
-
- memcpy(cont.buf + cont.len, text, len);
- cont.len += len;
-
- // The original flags come from the first line,
- // but later continuations can add a newline.
- if (flags & LOG_NEWLINE) {
- cont.flags |= LOG_NEWLINE;
- cont_flush();
- }
-
- return true;
+ if (in_task())
+ return (unsigned long) current;
+ if (in_nmi())
+ base = NR_CPUS * 2;
+ else if (in_irq())
+ base = NR_CPUS;
+ else
+ base = 0;
+ return base + raw_smp_processor_id();
}
-static size_t log_output(int facility, int level, enum log_flags lflags, const
char *dict, size_t dictlen, char *text, size_t text_len)
-{
+struct printk_buffer {
+ char buf[LOG_LINE_MAX];
+ /* valid bytes in buf[] */
+ size_t len;
/*
- * If an earlier line was buffered, and we're a continuation
- * write from the same process, try to add it to the buffer.
+ * owner context of this buffer if len != 0
+ *
+ * 0 to NR_CPUS - 1: A soft IRQ context reserved.
+ * NR_CPUS to NR_CPUS * 2 - 1: A hard IRQ context reserved.
+ * NR_CPUS * 2 to NR_CPUS * 3 - 1: An NMI context reserved.
+ * NR_CPUS * 3 to ULONG_MAX: Some task context reserved.
*/
- if (cont.len) {
- if (cont.owner == current && (lflags & LOG_CONT)) {
- if (cont_add(facility, level, lflags, text, text_len))
- return text_len;
+ unsigned long context;
+ /* last accessed jiffies */
+ unsigned long last_used;
+ /* time of first print */
+ u64 ts_nsec;
+ /* log flags of first message */
+ enum log_flags lflags;
+ /* log level of first message */
+ u8 level;
+} __aligned(1024);
+
+/* Number of line buffers. */
+#define NUM_LINE_BUFFERS 16
+
+/*
+ * Line buffered printk() tries to assign a buffer when printk() from a new
+ * context identifier comes in. And it automatically releases that buffer when
+ * one of three conditions listed below became true.
+ *
+ * (1) printk() from that context identifier emitted '\n' as the last
+ * character of output.
+ * (2) printk() from that context identifier tried to print a too long line
+ * which cannot be stored into a buffer.
+ * (3) printk() from a new context identifier noticed that some context
+ * identifier is reserving a buffer for more than 10 seconds without
+ * emitting '\n'.
+ *
+ * Since (3) is based on a heuristic that somebody forgot to emit '\n' as the
+ * last character of output(), pr_cont()/KERN_CONT users are expected to emit
+ * '\n' within 10 seconds even if they reserved a buffer.
+ */
+static void log_output(const int facility, const int level,
+ const enum log_flags lflags,
+ const char *text, const size_t text_len)
+{
+ static struct printk_buffer printk_buffers[NUM_LINE_BUFFERS];
+ static struct printk_buffer static_buffer;
+ struct printk_buffer *ptr;
+ int i;
+ const unsigned long context = printk_context();
+ const unsigned long now = jiffies;
+
+ /* Only kernel-generated messages are subjected to buffering. */
+ if (facility) {
+ ptr = &static_buffer;
+ goto found;
+ }
+ /* Check if this context already reserved a buffer. */
+ for (i = 0; i < NUM_LINE_BUFFERS; i++) {
+ ptr = &printk_buffers[i];
+ if (ptr->len && context == ptr->context)
+ goto found;
+ }
+ /* Check if somebody is reserving a buffer for too long. */
+ for (i = 0; i < NUM_LINE_BUFFERS; i++) {
+ ptr = &printk_buffers[i];
+ if (!ptr->len || !time_after(now, ptr->last_used + 10 * HZ))
+ continue;
+ /* Forced flush due to timeout. */
+ log_store(facility, ptr->level, ptr->lflags, ptr->ts_nsec,
+ NULL, 0, ptr->buf, ptr->len);
+ ptr->len = 0;
+ }
+ /* Check if this context can reserve a buffer. */
+ for (i = 0; i < NUM_LINE_BUFFERS; i++) {
+ ptr = &printk_buffers[i];
+ if (ptr->len == 0) {
+ ptr->context = context;
+ goto found;
}
- /* Otherwise, make sure it's flushed */
- cont_flush();
}
+ /* Forced assign due to out of buffers. */
+ ptr = &static_buffer;
+ found:
+ /* Forced flush due to log prefix or out of space. */
+ if (((ptr->len && (lflags & LOG_PREFIX)) ||
+ text_len + ptr->len > sizeof(ptr->buf))) {
+ log_store(facility, ptr->level, ptr->lflags, ptr->ts_nsec,
+ NULL, 0, ptr->buf, ptr->len);
+ ptr->len = 0;
+ }
+ if (ptr->len == 0) {
+ ptr->lflags = lflags;
+ ptr->level = level;
+ ptr->ts_nsec = local_clock();
+ }
+ /* 0 <= text_len <= LOG_LINE_MAX due to vscnprintf(). */
+ memmove(ptr->buf + ptr->len, text, text_len);
+ ptr->len += text_len;
+ /*
+ * Flush already completed lines. By splitting at '\n', we can inject
+ * caller id information to each line of text information.
+ */
+ while (true) {
+ size_t len;
+ char *cp = memchr(ptr->buf, '\n', ptr->len);
- /* Skip empty continuation lines that couldn't be added - they just
flush */
- if (!text_len && (lflags & LOG_CONT))
- return 0;
-
- /* If it doesn't end in a newline, try to buffer the current line */
- if (!(lflags & LOG_NEWLINE)) {
- if (cont_add(facility, level, lflags, text, text_len))
- return text_len;
+ if (!cp)
+ break;
+ len = ++cp - ptr->buf;
+ log_store(facility, ptr->level, ptr->lflags, ptr->ts_nsec,
+ NULL, 0, ptr->buf, len - 1);
+ ptr->len -= len;
+ memmove(ptr->buf, cp, ptr->len);
}
-
- /* Store it in the record log */
- return log_store(facility, level, lflags, 0, dict, dictlen, text,
text_len);
+ /* Forced flush due to out of buffers. */
+ if (ptr == &static_buffer && ptr->len) {
+ log_store(facility, ptr->level, ptr->lflags, ptr->ts_nsec,
+ NULL, 0, ptr->buf, ptr->len);
+ ptr->len = 0;
+ }
+ ptr->last_used = now;
}
/* Must be called under logbuf_lock. */
@@ -1857,12 +1934,6 @@ int vprintk_store(int facility, int level,
*/
text_len = vscnprintf(text, sizeof(textbuf), fmt, args);
- /* mark and strip a trailing newline */
- if (text_len && text[text_len-1] == '\n') {
- text_len--;
- lflags |= LOG_NEWLINE;
- }
-
/* strip kernel syslog prefix and extract log level or control flags */
if (facility == 0) {
int kern_level;
@@ -1888,11 +1959,29 @@ int vprintk_store(int facility, int level,
if (level == LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT)
level = default_message_loglevel;
- if (dict)
- lflags |= LOG_PREFIX|LOG_NEWLINE;
+ if (dict) {
+ char *cp;
- return log_output(facility, level, lflags,
- dict, dictlen, text, text_len);
+ /* Remove the trailing newline. */
+ if (text_len && text[text_len-1] == '\n')
+ text_len--;
+ /*
+ * Remove any newline because we don't want to duplicate dict
+ * information while we want to prefix caller id information to
+ * each line of text information.
+ */
+ while ((cp = memchr(text, '\n', text_len)) != NULL)
+ *cp = ' ';
+ log_store(facility, level, lflags | LOG_PREFIX | LOG_NEWLINE,
+ local_clock(), dict, dictlen, text, text_len);
+ return text_len;
+ }
+
+ /* Add '\n' via line buffering for kernel-generated messages. */
+ if (!facility)
+ lflags |= LOG_NEWLINE;
+ log_output(facility, level, lflags, text, text_len);
+ return text_len;
}
asmlinkage int vprintk_emit(int facility, int level,
--
1.8.3.1
