From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Subject: [RT] Race condition on bug output.
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 22:34:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1133926493.6724.109.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
Hi Ingo,
I found a race condition in my kernel which can also be found in yours.
When I trigger the printk in check_periodic_interval, interrupts are
turned on in release_console_sem. Unfortunately, this can have an
interrupt go off there (since they are turned back on there) and the
write_lock system_time_lock will be taken again, thus producing a
deadlock.
I'm not sure if this is the best solution, but this was the easiest.
Maybe the CONFIG_PARANOID_GENERIC_TIME should be added in the warnings
in init/main.c too?
Since interrupts are kept off in the ktimer (hrtimer, whatever) in
printk, this does not affect those patches. This is a PREEMPT_RT only
problem.
-- Steve
Index: linux-2.6.14-rt22/kernel/printk.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.14-rt22.orig/kernel/printk.c 2005-12-06 21:44:53.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.14-rt22/kernel/printk.c 2005-12-06 21:52:11.000000000 -0500
@@ -757,7 +757,8 @@
* on PREEMPT_RT, call console drivers with
* interrupts enabled (unless we are debugging):
*/
-#if defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) && !defined(CONFIG_PRINTK_IGNORE_LOGLEVEL) && !defined(CONFIG_PPC)
+#if defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) && !defined(CONFIG_PRINTK_IGNORE_LOGLEVEL) && !defined(CONFIG_PPC) \
+ && !defined(CONFIG_PARANOID_GENERIC_TIME)
spin_unlock_irq(&logbuf_lock);
#else
spin_unlock(&logbuf_lock);
next reply other threads:[~2005-12-07 3:35 UTC|newest]
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2005-12-07 3:34 Steven Rostedt [this message]
2005-12-07 8:33 ` Ingo Molnar
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