From fa33507a22623b3bd543b15a21c362cf364b6cff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:31:26 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] printk: robustify printk, fix #2 Dmitry Adamushko reported: > [*] btw., with DEBUG being enabled, pr_debug() generates [1] when > debug_smp_processor_id() is used (CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT). > > the problem seems to be caused by the following commit: > commit b845b517b5e3706a3729f6ea83b88ab85f0725b0 > Author: Peter Zijlstra > Date: Fri Aug 8 21:47:09 2008 +0200 > > printk: robustify printk > > > wake_up_klogd() -> __get_cpu_var() -> smp_processor_id() > > and that's being called from release_console_sem() which is, in turn, > said to be "may be called from any context" [2] > > and in this case, it seems to be called from some non-preemptible > context (although, it can't be printk()... > although, I haven't looked carefully yet). > > Provided [2], __get_cpu_var() is perhaps not the right solution there. > > > [1] > > [ 7697.942005] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: syslogd/3542 > [ 7697.942005] caller is wake_up_klogd+0x1b/0x50 > [ 7697.942005] Pid: 3542, comm: syslogd Not tainted 2.6.27-rc3-tip-git #2 > [ 7697.942005] Call Trace: > [ 7697.942005] [] debug_smp_processor_id+0xe8/0xf0 > [ 7697.942005] [] wake_up_klogd+0x1b/0x50 > [ 7697.942005] [] release_console_sem+0x1e7/0x200 > [ 7697.942005] [] do_con_write+0xb7/0x1f30 > [ 7697.942005] [] ? show_trace+0x10/0x20 > [ 7697.942005] [] ? dump_stack+0x72/0x80 > [ 7697.942005] [] ? __ratelimit+0xbd/0xe0 > [ 7697.942005] [] ? debug_smp_processor_id+0xe8/0xf0 > [ 7697.942005] [] ? wake_up_klogd+0x1b/0x50 > [ 7697.942005] [] ? release_console_sem+0x1e7/0x200 > [ 7697.942005] [] con_write+0x19/0x30 > [ 7697.942005] [] write_chan+0x276/0x3c0 > [ 7697.942005] [] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0x10 > [ 7697.942005] [] ? _spin_lock_irqsave+0x22/0x50 > [ 7697.942005] [] tty_write+0x194/0x260 > [ 7697.942005] [] ? write_chan+0x0/0x3c0 > [ 7697.942005] [] redirected_tty_write+0xa4/0xb0 > [ 7697.942005] [] ? redirected_tty_write+0x0/0xb0 > [ 7697.942005] [] do_loop_readv_writev+0x52/0x80 > [ 7697.942005] [] do_readv_writev+0x1bd/0x1d0 > [ 7697.942005] [] vfs_writev+0x39/0x60 > [ 7697.942005] [] sys_writev+0x50/0x90 > [ 7697.942005] [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Reported-by: Dmitry Adamushko Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/printk.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c index 655cc2ca10cc..57e9cd7a9581 100644 --- a/kernel/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk.c @@ -1000,7 +1000,7 @@ int printk_needs_cpu(int cpu) void wake_up_klogd(void) { if (waitqueue_active(&log_wait)) - __get_cpu_var(printk_pending) = 1; + __raw_get_cpu_var(printk_pending) = 1; } /** -- 2.20.1