Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 3 authors, 2016-07-12

Re: [Query] Preemption (hogging) of the work handler

From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Date: 2016-07-12 14:04:33
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On 12-07-16, 15:56, Petr Mladek wrote:
Ah, I have missed that the hang happens only when you use the async
printk patchset.
And that also doesn't happen always, but only sometimes. So there is a
race somewhere I feel :)
I wonder if it is somehow related to the commit 8d91f8b15361dfb438ab
("printk: do cond_resched() between lines while outputting to
consoles"). A process (printk thread) might sleep with taken
console_sem. Then suspend_console() might be unable to
get the semaphore in console_lock() and might deadlock.
I am not sure at this point really, and I don't have indepth knowledge
of printk core as well (I should accept that here :).
Does it help to enable "no_console_suspend" please?
No. With no_console_suspend, we just print one more line (Disabling
non-boot CPUs) and once the interrupt on the local CPU are disabled,
we don't get any more prints until a resume happens.

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viresh
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