From: Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz> Offload printing of scheduler deferred messages from IRQ context to a schedulable printing kthread, when possible (the same way we do it in vprintk_emit()). Otherwise, the CPU can spend unbounded amount of time doing printing in console_unlock() from IRQ.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhat...@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmla...@suse.com> --- kernel/printk/printk.c | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c index 64a98ea..89f5441 100644 --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c @@ -2820,9 +2820,16 @@ static void wake_up_klogd_work_func(struct irq_work *irq_work) int pending = __this_cpu_xchg(printk_pending, 0); if (pending & PRINTK_PENDING_OUTPUT) { - /* If trylock fails, someone else is doing the printing */ - if (console_trylock()) - console_unlock(); + if (printk_kthread) { + wake_up_process(printk_kthread); + } else { + /* + * If trylock fails, someone else is doing + * the printing + */ + if (console_trylock()) + console_unlock(); + } } if (pending & PRINTK_PENDING_WAKEUP) -- 2.8.0