This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled printk: avoid prb_first_valid_seq() where possible to the 5.11-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: printk-avoid-prb_first_valid_seq-where-possible.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit fb62a6c9df6a3b2a1de2c3e9b2037610fb95cdeb Author: John Ogness <john.ogness@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Feb 11 18:37:52 2021 +0106 printk: avoid prb_first_valid_seq() where possible [ Upstream commit 13791c80b0cdf54d92fc54221cdf490683b109de ] If message sizes average larger than expected (more than 32 characters), the data_ring will wrap before the desc_ring. Once the data_ring wraps, it will start invalidating descriptors. These invalid descriptors hang around until they are eventually recycled when the desc_ring wraps. Readers do not care about invalid descriptors, but they still need to iterate past them. If the average message size is much larger than 32 characters, then there will be many invalid descriptors preceding the valid descriptors. The function prb_first_valid_seq() always begins at the oldest descriptor and searches for the first valid descriptor. This can be rather expensive for the above scenario. And, in fact, because of its heavy usage in /dev/kmsg, there have been reports of long delays and even RCU stalls. For code that does not need to search from the oldest record, replace prb_first_valid_seq() usage with prb_read_valid_*() functions, which provide a start sequence number to search from. Fixes: 896fbe20b4e2333fb55 ("printk: use the lockless ringbuffer") Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: J. Avila <elavila@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210211173152.1629-1-john.ogness@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c index 5a95c688621fa..575a34b88936f 100644 --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c @@ -735,9 +735,9 @@ static ssize_t devkmsg_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, logbuf_lock_irq(); } - if (user->seq < prb_first_valid_seq(prb)) { + if (r->info->seq != user->seq) { /* our last seen message is gone, return error and reset */ - user->seq = prb_first_valid_seq(prb); + user->seq = r->info->seq; ret = -EPIPE; logbuf_unlock_irq(); goto out; @@ -812,6 +812,7 @@ static loff_t devkmsg_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence) static __poll_t devkmsg_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait) { struct devkmsg_user *user = file->private_data; + struct printk_info info; __poll_t ret = 0; if (!user) @@ -820,9 +821,9 @@ static __poll_t devkmsg_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait) poll_wait(file, &log_wait, wait); logbuf_lock_irq(); - if (prb_read_valid(prb, user->seq, NULL)) { + if (prb_read_valid_info(prb, user->seq, &info, NULL)) { /* return error when data has vanished underneath us */ - if (user->seq < prb_first_valid_seq(prb)) + if (info.seq != user->seq) ret = EPOLLIN|EPOLLRDNORM|EPOLLERR|EPOLLPRI; else ret = EPOLLIN|EPOLLRDNORM; @@ -1559,6 +1560,7 @@ static void syslog_clear(void) int do_syslog(int type, char __user *buf, int len, int source) { + struct printk_info info; bool clear = false; static int saved_console_loglevel = LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT; int error; @@ -1629,9 +1631,14 @@ int do_syslog(int type, char __user *buf, int len, int source) /* Number of chars in the log buffer */ case SYSLOG_ACTION_SIZE_UNREAD: logbuf_lock_irq(); - if (syslog_seq < prb_first_valid_seq(prb)) { + if (!prb_read_valid_info(prb, syslog_seq, &info, NULL)) { + /* No unread messages. */ + logbuf_unlock_irq(); + return 0; + } + if (info.seq != syslog_seq) { /* messages are gone, move to first one */ - syslog_seq = prb_first_valid_seq(prb); + syslog_seq = info.seq; syslog_partial = 0; } if (source == SYSLOG_FROM_PROC) { @@ -1643,7 +1650,6 @@ int do_syslog(int type, char __user *buf, int len, int source) error = prb_next_seq(prb) - syslog_seq; } else { bool time = syslog_partial ? syslog_time : printk_time; - struct printk_info info; unsigned int line_count; u64 seq; @@ -3429,9 +3435,11 @@ bool kmsg_dump_get_buffer(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper, bool syslog, goto out; logbuf_lock_irqsave(flags); - if (dumper->cur_seq < prb_first_valid_seq(prb)) { - /* messages are gone, move to first available one */ - dumper->cur_seq = prb_first_valid_seq(prb); + if (prb_read_valid_info(prb, dumper->cur_seq, &info, NULL)) { + if (info.seq != dumper->cur_seq) { + /* messages are gone, move to first available one */ + dumper->cur_seq = info.seq; + } } /* last entry */