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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: luojiaxing <luojiaxing@huawei.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
	sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	john.ogness@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linuxarm@huawei.com, bobo.shaobowang@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: stop spining waiter when console resume to flush prb
Date: Mon, 10 May 2021 21:06:09 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YJkhsb7h5Ptn+oFO@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YJkB6SedDHe3FlGI@alley>

On (21/05/10 11:50), Petr Mladek wrote:
[..]
> The only problem is that it becomes the console_owner too late.
> It spends long time by flushing the accumulated messages. But
> they are its own messages after all.
> 
> The only real solution is to pass the console work to a separate
> kthread and do not block any printk() caller.

Yeah, but even that thing is getting complex fairly quickly.
wake_up_process() queues kthread on the same CPU, so if the
printk() (ab)-user is in atomic context then printing kthread
won't get scheduled.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-10 12:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-06  8:00 [PATCH] printk: stop spining waiter when console resume to flush prb Luo Jiaxing
2021-05-06 13:13 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-05-07  8:35   ` luojiaxing
2021-05-06 13:39 ` Petr Mladek
2021-05-06 14:07   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-05-06 14:12     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-05-06 15:14       ` John Ogness
2021-05-07  7:58         ` luojiaxing
2021-05-07  7:33       ` luojiaxing
2021-05-07  7:49         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-05-07 16:36       ` Petr Mladek
2021-05-10  8:26         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-05-10 10:17           ` Petr Mladek
2021-05-10 10:32             ` John Ogness
2021-05-10 11:16               ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-05-10 11:43             ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-05-07 16:13     ` Petr Mladek
2021-05-10  8:29       ` luojiaxing
2021-05-10  9:50         ` Petr Mladek
2021-05-10 12:06           ` Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]
2021-05-10  7:41   ` luojiaxing
2021-05-10  9:30     ` Petr Mladek
2021-05-11  7:32       ` luojiaxing
2021-05-11  9:08         ` Petr Mladek
2021-05-13  7:55           ` luojiaxing

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