From 0b5e1c5255e7ee8670e077e8224e5c2281229a5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 11:15:33 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] printk: Release console_sem after logbuf_lock Release console_sem after unlocking the logbuf_lock so that we don't generate wakeups while holding logbuf_lock. This avoids some lock inversion troubles once we remove the lockdep_off bits between logbuf_lock and rq->lock (prints while holding rq->lock vs doing wakeups while holding logbuf_lock). There's of course still an actual deadlock where the printk()s under rq->lock will issue a wakeup from the up() call, but lockdep won't warn about that since semaphores are not tracked. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-j8swthl12u73h4znbvitljzd@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/printk.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c index 35185392173f..751e7b84e9e3 100644 --- a/kernel/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk.c @@ -782,7 +782,7 @@ static inline int can_use_console(unsigned int cpu) static int console_trylock_for_printk(unsigned int cpu) __releases(&logbuf_lock) { - int retval = 0; + int retval = 0, wake = 0; if (console_trylock()) { retval = 1; @@ -795,12 +795,14 @@ static int console_trylock_for_printk(unsigned int cpu) */ if (!can_use_console(cpu)) { console_locked = 0; - up(&console_sem); + wake = 1; retval = 0; } } printk_cpu = UINT_MAX; spin_unlock(&logbuf_lock); + if (wake) + up(&console_sem); return retval; } static const char recursion_bug_msg [] = @@ -1271,8 +1273,8 @@ void console_unlock(void) if (unlikely(exclusive_console)) exclusive_console = NULL; - up(&console_sem); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&logbuf_lock, flags); + up(&console_sem); if (wake_klogd) wake_up_klogd(); } -- 2.30.2