[PATCH 10/32] nohz/cpuset: Restart the tick if printk needs it

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Mon Oct 29 2012 - 16:48:28 EST


From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>

If we are in nohz adaptive mode and printk is called, the tick is
missing to wake up the logger. We need to restart the tick when that
happens. Do this asynchronously by issuing a tick restart self IPI
to avoid deadlocking with the current random locking chain.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxx>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/printk.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index 2d607f4..bf9048d 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
#include <linux/notifier.h>
#include <linux/rculist.h>
#include <linux/poll.h>
+#include <linux/cpuset.h>

#include <asm/uaccess.h>

@@ -1977,8 +1978,20 @@ int printk_needs_cpu(int cpu)

void wake_up_klogd(void)
{
- if (waitqueue_active(&log_wait))
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ if (waitqueue_active(&log_wait)) {
this_cpu_or(printk_pending, PRINTK_PENDING_WAKEUP);
+ /* Make it visible from any interrupt from now */
+ barrier();
+ /*
+ * It's safe to check that even if interrupts are not disabled.
+ * If we enable nohz adaptive mode concurrently, we'll see the
+ * printk_pending value and thus keep a periodic tick behaviour.
+ */
+ if (cpuset_adaptive_nohz())
+ smp_cpuset_update_nohz(smp_processor_id());
+ }
}

static void console_cont_flush(char *text, size_t size)
--
1.7.10.4


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