Initialize kernel printing thread and make printk offloading
possible. By default `atomic_print_limit' is set to 0, so no
offloading will take place, unless requested by user.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhat...@gmail.com>
---
 kernel/printk/printk.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 59 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index 3a0e78812818..05165f008bc8 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -2913,6 +2913,65 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct irq_work, 
wake_up_klogd_work) = {
        .flags = IRQ_WORK_LAZY,
 };
 
+static int printk_kthread_func(void *data)
+{
+       while (1) {
+               set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
+               /*
+                * We must check `printk_emergency' as well, to let
+                * printk_emergency_begin() stop active `printk_kthread' at
+                * some point. Otherwise we can end up in a loop:
+                *   - we bail out of console_unlock() because of
+                *     printk_kthread_should_stop()
+                * and
+                *   - don't schedule() and attempt to return back
+                *     immediately to console_unlock() because we
+                *     see PRINTK_PENDING_OUTPUT bit set.
+                */
+               if (!test_bit(PRINTK_PENDING_OUTPUT, &printk_pending) ||
+                               atomic_read(&printk_emergency) != 0)
+                       schedule();
+
+               __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
+
+               /* We might have been woken for stop */
+               if (kthread_should_park())
+                       kthread_parkme();
+
+               console_lock();
+               console_unlock();
+
+               /* We might have been blocked on console_sem */
+               if (kthread_should_park())
+                       kthread_parkme();
+       }
+
+       return 0;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Init printk kthread at late_initcall stage, after core/arch/device/etc.
+ * initialization.
+ */
+static int __init init_printk_kthread(void)
+{
+       struct task_struct *thread;
+
+       if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&printk_offload_cpus, GFP_KERNEL))
+               return -ENOMEM;
+
+       thread = kthread_run(printk_kthread_func, NULL, "printk");
+       if (IS_ERR(thread)) {
+               pr_err("printk: unable to create printing thread\n");
+               free_cpumask_var(printk_offload_cpus);
+               return PTR_ERR(thread);
+       }
+
+       printk_kthread = thread;
+       return 0;
+}
+late_initcall(init_printk_kthread);
+
 void wake_up_klogd(void)
 {
        preempt_disable();
-- 
2.14.1

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