On (09/06/19 16:01), Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> In fact, i've gotten output that is plain impossible with
> the current junk.
Peter, can you post any of those backtraces? Very curious.
-ss
On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 04:01:26PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 02:42:11PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > 7. People would complain when continuous lines become less
> >reliable. It might be most visible when mixing backtraces
> >from all CPUs. Simple sorting by pre
On 2019-09-06, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> I wish it was that simple. It is possible that I see it too
>> complicated. But this comes to my mind:
>>
>> 1. The simple printk_buffer_store(buf, n) is not NMI safe. For this,
>>we might need the reserve-store approach.
>
> Of course it is, and sure i
On (09/06/19 16:01), Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > 2. The simple approach works only with lockless consoles. We need
> >something else for the rest at least for NMI. Simle offloading
> >to a kthread has been blocked for years. People wanted the
> >trylock-and-flush-immediately approach.
>
On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 04:01:26PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 02:42:11PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > 7. People would complain when continuous lines become less
> >reliable. It might be most visible when mixing backtraces
> >from all CPUs. Simple sorting by pref
On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 02:42:11PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> I wish it was that simple. It is possible that I see it too
> complicated. But this comes to my mind:
>
> 1. The simple printk_buffer_store(buf, n) is not NMI safe. For this,
>we might need the reserve-store approach.
Of course i
On (09/06/19 12:49), Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 07:09:43PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
>
> > ---
> > diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk_safe.c b/kernel/printk/printk_safe.c
> > index 139c310049b1..9c73eb6259ce 100644
> > --- a/kernel/printk/printk_safe.c
> > +++ b/kernel/p
On Fri 2019-09-06 11:06:27, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 04:31:18PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > So I have something roughly like the below; I'm suggesting you add the
> > line with + on:
> >
> > int early_vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
> > {
> > char buf[256
On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 07:09:43PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> ---
> diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk_safe.c b/kernel/printk/printk_safe.c
> index 139c310049b1..9c73eb6259ce 100644
> --- a/kernel/printk/printk_safe.c
> +++ b/kernel/printk/printk_safe.c
> @@ -103,7 +103,10 @@ static __print
On (09/06/19 11:06), Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Another approach is something like:
>
> DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, printk_nest);
> DEFINE_PER_CPU(char, printk_line[4][256]);
>
> int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
> {
> int c, n, i;
> char *buf;
>
> preempt_disable();
> i = m
On Thu 2019-09-05 12:11:01, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> [ Added Ted and Linux Plumbers ]
>
> On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 17:38:21 +0200 (CEST)
> Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 5 Sep 2019, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 03:05:13PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > > > The alternati
On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 04:31:18PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> So I have something roughly like the below; I'm suggesting you add the
> line with + on:
>
> int early_vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
> {
> char buf[256]; // teh suck!
> int old, n = vscnprintf(buf, sizeof(bu
On 2019-09-05, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>>> But per the above argument of needing the CPU serialization
>>> _anyway_, I don't see a compelling reason not to use it.
>>>
>>> It is simple, it works. Let's use it.
>>>
>>> If you really fancy a multi-writer buffer, you can always switch to
>>> one late
[ Added Ted and Linux Plumbers ]
On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 17:38:21 +0200 (CEST)
Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Sep 2019, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 03:05:13PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > > The alternative lockless approach is still more complicated than
> > > the seria
On Thu, 5 Sep 2019, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 03:05:13PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > The alternative lockless approach is still more complicated than
> > the serialized one. But I think that it is manageable thanks to
> > the simplified state tracking. And I might safe use s
On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 03:05:13PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> The serialized approach used a lock. It was re-entrant and thus less
> error-prone but still a lock.
>
> The lock was planed to be used not only to access the buffer but also
> for eventual locking inside lockless consoles. It might a
On Wed 2019-09-04 14:35:31, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 12:32:25AM +0206, John Ogness wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > This is a follow-up RFC on the work to re-implement much of
> > the core of printk. The threads for the previous RFC versions
> > are here: v1[0], v2[1], v3[2].
> >
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 12:32:25AM +0206, John Ogness wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is a follow-up RFC on the work to re-implement much of
> the core of printk. The threads for the previous RFC versions
> are here: v1[0], v2[1], v3[2].
>
> This series only builds upon v3 (i.e. the first part of this
>
Hello,
This is a follow-up RFC on the work to re-implement much of
the core of printk. The threads for the previous RFC versions
are here: v1[0], v2[1], v3[2].
This series only builds upon v3 (i.e. the first part of this
series is exactly v3). The main purpose of this series is to
replace the cur
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