The patch titled printk: use RCU to prevent potential lock contention in kmsg_dump has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was printk-use-rcu-to-prevent-potential-lock-contention-in-kmsg_dump.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: printk: use RCU to prevent potential lock contention in kmsg_dump From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> dump_list_lock is used to protect dump_list in kmsg_dumper implementation, kmsg_dump() uses it to traverse dump_list too. But if there is contention on the lock, kmsg_dump() will fail, and the valuable kernel message may be lost. This patch solves this issue with RCU. Because kmsg_dump() only read the list, no lock is needed in kmsg_dump(). So that kmsg_dump() will never fail because of lock contention. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/printk.c | 34 +++++++--------------------------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/printk.c~printk-use-rcu-to-prevent-potential-lock-contention-in-kmsg_dump kernel/printk.c --- a/kernel/printk.c~printk-use-rcu-to-prevent-potential-lock-contention-in-kmsg_dump +++ a/kernel/printk.c @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ #include <linux/syslog.h> #include <linux/cpu.h> #include <linux/notifier.h> +#include <linux/rculist.h> #include <asm/uaccess.h> @@ -1502,7 +1503,7 @@ int kmsg_dump_register(struct kmsg_dumpe /* Don't allow registering multiple times */ if (!dumper->registered) { dumper->registered = 1; - list_add_tail(&dumper->list, &dump_list); + list_add_tail_rcu(&dumper->list, &dump_list); err = 0; } spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dump_list_lock, flags); @@ -1526,33 +1527,16 @@ int kmsg_dump_unregister(struct kmsg_dum spin_lock_irqsave(&dump_list_lock, flags); if (dumper->registered) { dumper->registered = 0; - list_del(&dumper->list); + list_del_rcu(&dumper->list); err = 0; } spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dump_list_lock, flags); + synchronize_rcu(); return err; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kmsg_dump_unregister); -static const char * const kmsg_reasons[] = { - [KMSG_DUMP_OOPS] = "oops", - [KMSG_DUMP_PANIC] = "panic", - [KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC] = "kexec", - [KMSG_DUMP_RESTART] = "restart", - [KMSG_DUMP_HALT] = "halt", - [KMSG_DUMP_POWEROFF] = "poweroff", - [KMSG_DUMP_EMERG] = "emergency_restart", -}; - -static const char *kmsg_to_str(enum kmsg_dump_reason reason) -{ - if (reason >= ARRAY_SIZE(kmsg_reasons) || reason < 0) - return "unknown"; - - return kmsg_reasons[reason]; -} - /** * kmsg_dump - dump kernel log to kernel message dumpers. * @reason: the reason (oops, panic etc) for dumping @@ -1591,13 +1575,9 @@ void kmsg_dump(enum kmsg_dump_reason rea l2 = chars; } - if (!spin_trylock_irqsave(&dump_list_lock, flags)) { - printk(KERN_ERR "dump_kmsg: dump list lock is held during %s, skipping dump\n", - kmsg_to_str(reason)); - return; - } - list_for_each_entry(dumper, &dump_list, list) + rcu_read_lock(); + list_for_each_entry_rcu(dumper, &dump_list, list) dumper->dump(dumper, reason, s1, l1, s2, l2); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dump_list_lock, flags); + rcu_read_unlock(); } #endif _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html