Necessity for offloading of printing was observed only for large
systems. So add a config option (disabled by default) which removes most
of the overhead added by this functionality.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz>
---
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 13 +++++++------
init/Kconfig | 14 ++++++++++++++
kernel/printk/printk.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 74826b1e2529..3c6d5aec501a 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2621,18 +2621,19 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be
entirely omitted.
Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
default: disabled
- printk.offload_chars=
+ printk.offload_chars= [KNL]
Printing to console can be relatively slow especially
in case of serial console. When there is intensive
printing happening from several cpus (as is the case
during boot), a cpu can be spending significant time
(seconds or more) doing printing. To avoid softlockups,
lost interrupts, and similar problems other cpus
- will take over printing after the currently printing
- cpu has printed 'printk.offload_chars' characters.
- Higher value means possibly longer interrupt and other
- latencies but lower overhead of printing due to handing
- over of printing.
+ will take over printing (if CONFIG_PRINTK_OFFLOAD=y)
+ after the currently printing cpu has printed
+ 'printk.offload_chars' characters. Higher value means
+ possibly longer interrupt and other latencies but
+ lower overhead of printing due to handing over of
+ printing.
Format: <number> (0 = disabled)
default: 1000
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 009a797dd242..45aa7368d92f 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1343,6 +1343,20 @@ config PRINTK
very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
strongly discouraged.
+config PRINTK_OFFLOAD
+ default y
+ bool "Enable support for offloading printing to different CPU"
+ depends on PRINTK
+ help
+ Printing to console can be relatively slow especially in case of
+ serial console. On large machines when there is intensive printing
+ happening from several cpus (as is the case during boot), a cpu can
+ be spending significant time (seconds or more) doing printing. To
+ avoid softlockups, lost interrupts, and similar problems other cpus
+ will take over printing after the currently printing cpu has printed
+ certain number of characters (tunable via 'printk.offload_chars'
+ kernel parameter).
+
config BUG
bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
default y
diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index 1c0577383af5..c3ad3b834f68 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ enum {
};
static long printk_handover_state;
+#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK_OFFLOAD
/*
* Number of kernel threads for offloading printing. We need at least two so
* that they can hand over printing from one to another one and thus switch
@@ -116,6 +117,7 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(printk_kthread_mutex);
/* Wait queue printing kthreads sleep on when idle */
static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(print_queue);
+#endif /* CONFIG_PRINTK_OFFLOAD */
#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
static struct lockdep_map console_lock_dep_map = {
@@ -284,6 +286,7 @@ static char __log_buf[__LOG_BUF_LEN] __aligned(LOG_ALIGN);
static char *log_buf = __log_buf;
static u32 log_buf_len = __LOG_BUF_LEN;
+#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK_OFFLOAD
static int offload_chars_set(const char *val, const struct kernel_param *kp);
static struct kernel_param_ops offload_chars_ops = {
.set = offload_chars_set,
@@ -302,6 +305,7 @@ module_param_cb(offload_chars, &offload_chars_ops,
&printk_offload_chars,
S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(offload_chars, "offload printing to console to a different"
" cpu after this number of characters");
+#endif
/* human readable text of the record */
static char *log_text(const struct printk_log *msg)
@@ -2021,6 +2025,7 @@ int console_trylock(void)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(console_trylock);
+#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK_OFFLOAD
/*
* This is a version of console_lock() which spins to acquire console_sem.
* It is only for use by threads that take care of flushing printk buffer so
@@ -2052,6 +2057,7 @@ static int console_lock_try_spin(void)
mutex_acquire(&console_lock_dep_map, 0, 0, _RET_IP_);
return 1;
}
+#endif
int is_console_locked(void)
{
@@ -2087,6 +2093,7 @@ out:
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&logbuf_lock, flags);
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK_OFFLOAD
/*
* Returns true iff there is other cpu waiting to take over printing. This
* function also takes are of setting PRINTK_HANDOVER_B if we want to hand over
@@ -2113,6 +2120,7 @@ static bool cpu_stop_printing(int printed_chars)
}
return false;
}
+#endif
/**
* console_unlock - unlock the console system
@@ -2155,10 +2163,12 @@ again:
size_t len;
int level;
+#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK_OFFLOAD
if (cpu_stop_printing(printed_chars)) {
hand_over = true;
break;
}
+#endif
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&logbuf_lock, flags);
if (seen_seq != log_next_seq) {
@@ -2576,6 +2586,7 @@ int unregister_console(struct console *console)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_console);
+#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK_OFFLOAD
/* Kthread which takes over printing from a CPU which asks for help */
static int printing_task(void *arg)
{
@@ -2638,6 +2649,7 @@ static int offload_chars_set(const char *val, const
struct kernel_param *kp)
mutex_unlock(&printk_kthread_mutex);
return 0;
}
+#endif /* CONFIG_PRINTK_OFFLOAD */
static int __init printk_late_init(void)
{
@@ -2650,9 +2662,11 @@ static int __init printk_late_init(void)
}
hotcpu_notifier(console_cpu_notify, 0);
+#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK_OFFLOAD
mutex_lock(&printk_kthread_mutex);
printk_start_offload_kthreads();
mutex_unlock(&printk_kthread_mutex);
+#endif
return 0;
}
--
1.8.1.4
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