On Fri 2017-05-05 11:21:41, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (05/04/17 17:46), Petr Mladek wrote:
> [..]
> > Suggested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <[email protected]>
>
> Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>
Thanks for ack.
> a small nitpick,
>
> [..]
> > void printk_nmi_enter(void)
> > {
> > - this_cpu_or(printk_context, PRINTK_NMI_CONTEXT_MASK);
> > + /*
> > + * The size of the extra per-CPU buffer is limited. Use it only when
> > + * the main one is locked. If this CPU is not in the safe context,
> > + * the lock must be taken on another CPU and we could wait for it.
> > + */
> > + if (raw_spin_is_locked(&logbuf_lock) &&
> > + this_cpu_read(printk_context) & PRINTK_SAFE_CONTEXT_MASK) {
> > + this_cpu_or(printk_context, PRINTK_NMI_CONTEXT_MASK);
>
> could we please check `printk_context' (local to a particular CPU)
> first and, if positive, then access `logbuf_lock' (which is global)?
OK, I did so and queued the fix for-4.13, see
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk.git/commit/?h=for-4.13&id=ad30113010b7b2dd886923261aea7034de07cce6
Best Regards,
Petr
