From: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>

To prevent deadlocks with doing a printk inside the scheduler,
printk_sched() was created. The issue is that printk has a console_sem
that it can grab and release. The release does a wake up if there's a
task pending on the sem, and this wake up grabs the rq locks that is
held in the scheduler. This leads to a possible deadlock if the wake up
uses the same rq as the one with the rq lock held already.

What printk_sched() does is to save the printk write in a per cpu buffer
and sets the PRINTK_PENDING_SCHED flag. On a timer tick, if this flag is
set, the printk() is done against the buffer.

There's a couple of issues with this approach.

1) If two printk_sched()s are called before the tick, the second one
will overwrite the first one.

2) The temporary buffer is 512 bytes and is per cpu. This is a quite a
bit of space wasted for something that is seldom used.

In order to remove this, the printk_sched() can use the printk buffer
instead, and delay the console_trylock()/console_unlock() to the queued
work.

Because printk_sched() would then be taking the logbuf_lock, the
logbuf_lock must not be held while doing anything that may call into the
scheduler functions, which includes wake ups. Unfortunately, printk()
also has a console_sem that it uses, and on release, the
up(&console_sem) may do a wake up of any pending waiters. This must be
avoided while holding the logbuf_lock.

Luckily, there's not many places that do the unlock, or hold the
logbuf_lock. By moving things around a little, the console_sem can be
released without ever holding the logbuf_lock, and we can safely have
printk_sched() use the printk buffer directly.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz>
---
 kernel/printk/printk.c | 86 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index 5b5a708..9208e17 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -208,6 +208,9 @@ struct printk_log {
 /*
  * The logbuf_lock protects kmsg buffer, indices, counters. It is also
  * used in interesting ways to provide interlocking in console_unlock();
+ * This can be taken within the scheduler's rq lock. It must be released
+ * before calling console_unlock() or anything else that might wake up
+ * a process.
  */
 static DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(logbuf_lock);
 
@@ -1343,27 +1346,43 @@ static inline int can_use_console(unsigned int cpu)
  * interrupts disabled. It should return with 'lockbuf_lock'
  * released but interrupts still disabled.
  */
-static int console_trylock_for_printk(unsigned int cpu)
+static int console_trylock_for_printk(unsigned int cpu, bool in_sched)
        __releases(&logbuf_lock)
 {
        int retval = 0, wake = 0;
 
-       if (console_trylock()) {
-               retval = 1;
+       /* if called from the scheduler, we can not call up() */
+       if (in_sched)
+               goto out;
 
-               /*
-                * If we can't use the console, we need to release
-                * the console semaphore by hand to avoid flushing
-                * the buffer. We need to hold the console semaphore
-                * in order to do this test safely.
-                */
-               if (!can_use_console(cpu)) {
-                       console_locked = 0;
-                       wake = 1;
-                       retval = 0;
-               }
+       if (down_trylock(&console_sem))
+               goto out;
+
+       /*
+        * If we can't use the console, we need to release
+        * the console semaphore by hand to avoid flushing
+        * the buffer. We need to hold the console semaphore
+        * in order to do this test safely.
+        */
+       if (console_suspended || !can_use_console(cpu)) {
+               wake = 1;
+               goto out;
        }
+
+       /* console is now locked */
+
+       console_locked = 1;
+       console_may_schedule = 0;
+       mutex_acquire(&console_lock_dep_map, 0, 1, _RET_IP_);
+
+       retval = 1;
+
+out:
        logbuf_cpu = UINT_MAX;
+       /*
+        * The logbuf_lock must not be held when doing a wake up,
+        * which the up(&console_sem) can do.
+        */
        raw_spin_unlock(&logbuf_lock);
        if (wake)
                up(&console_sem);
@@ -1495,11 +1514,17 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk_emit(int facility, int level,
        static int recursion_bug;
        static char textbuf[LOG_LINE_MAX];
        char *text = textbuf;
-       size_t text_len;
+       size_t text_len = 0;
        enum log_flags lflags = 0;
        unsigned long flags;
        int this_cpu;
        int printed_len = 0;
+       bool in_sched = false;
+
+       if (level == -2) {
+               level = -1;
+               in_sched = true;
+       }
 
        boot_delay_msec(level);
        printk_delay();
@@ -1545,7 +1570,12 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk_emit(int facility, int level,
         * The printf needs to come first; we need the syslog
         * prefix which might be passed-in as a parameter.
         */
-       text_len = vscnprintf(text, sizeof(textbuf), fmt, args);
+       if (in_sched)
+               text_len = scnprintf(text, sizeof(textbuf),
+                                    KERN_WARNING "[sched_delayed] ");
+
+       text_len += vscnprintf(text + text_len,
+                              sizeof(textbuf) - text_len, fmt, args);
 
        /* mark and strip a trailing newline */
        if (text_len && text[text_len-1] == '\n') {
@@ -1620,7 +1650,7 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk_emit(int facility, int level,
         * The console_trylock_for_printk() function will release 'logbuf_lock'
         * regardless of whether it actually gets the console semaphore or not.
         */
-       if (console_trylock_for_printk(this_cpu))
+       if (console_trylock_for_printk(this_cpu, in_sched))
                console_unlock();
 
        lockdep_on();
@@ -2428,21 +2458,19 @@ late_initcall(printk_late_init);
 /*
  * Delayed printk version, for scheduler-internal messages:
  */
-#define PRINTK_BUF_SIZE                512
-
 #define PRINTK_PENDING_WAKEUP  0x01
-#define PRINTK_PENDING_SCHED   0x02
+#define PRINTK_PENDING_OUTPUT  0x02
 
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, printk_pending);
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(char [PRINTK_BUF_SIZE], printk_sched_buf);
 
 static void wake_up_klogd_work_func(struct irq_work *irq_work)
 {
        int pending = __this_cpu_xchg(printk_pending, 0);
 
-       if (pending & PRINTK_PENDING_SCHED) {
-               char *buf = __get_cpu_var(printk_sched_buf);
-               printk(KERN_WARNING "[sched_delayed] %s", buf);
+       if (pending & PRINTK_PENDING_OUTPUT) {
+               /* If trylock fails, someone else is doing the printing */
+               if (console_trylock())
+                       console_unlock();
        }
 
        if (pending & PRINTK_PENDING_WAKEUP)
@@ -2466,21 +2494,15 @@ void wake_up_klogd(void)
 
 int printk_sched(const char *fmt, ...)
 {
-       unsigned long flags;
        va_list args;
-       char *buf;
        int r;
 
-       local_irq_save(flags);
-       buf = __get_cpu_var(printk_sched_buf);
-
        va_start(args, fmt);
-       r = vsnprintf(buf, PRINTK_BUF_SIZE, fmt, args);
+       r = vprintk_emit(0, -2, NULL, 0, fmt, args);
        va_end(args);
 
-       __this_cpu_or(printk_pending, PRINTK_PENDING_SCHED);
+       __this_cpu_or(printk_pending, PRINTK_PENDING_OUTPUT);
        irq_work_queue(&__get_cpu_var(wake_up_klogd_work));
-       local_irq_restore(flags);
 
        return r;
 }
-- 
1.8.1.4

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