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From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	adi-buildroot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-cris-kernel@axis.com, linux-mips@linux-mips.org,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 4/4] printk/nmi: Increase the size of NMI buffer and make it configurable
Date: Wed,  9 Dec 2015 14:21:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1449667265-17525-5-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1449667265-17525-1-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com>

Testing has shown that the backtrace sometimes does not fit
into the 4kB temporary buffer that is used in NMI context.
The warnings are gone when I double the temporary buffer size.

This patch doubles the buffer size and makes it configurable.

Note that this problem existed even in the x86-specific
implementation that was added by the commit a9edc8809328
("x86/nmi: Perform a safe NMI stack trace on all CPUs").
Nobody noticed it because it did not print any warnings.

Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
---
 init/Kconfig        | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/printk/nmi.c |  3 ++-
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index c1c0b6a2d712..efcff25a112d 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -866,6 +866,28 @@ config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
 		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
 		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
 
+config NMI_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
+	int "Temporary per-CPU NMI log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
+	range 10 21
+	default 13
+	depends on PRINTK && HAVE_NMI
+	help
+	  Select the size of a per-CPU buffer where NMI messages are temporary
+	  stored. They are copied to the main log buffer in a safe context
+	  to avoid a deadlock. The value defines the size as a power of 2.
+
+	  NMI messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
+	  a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
+	  8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
+
+	  Examples:
+		     17 => 128 KB for each CPU
+		     16 =>  64 KB for each CPU
+		     15 =>  32 KB for each CPU
+		     14 =>  16 KB for each CPU
+		     13 =>   8 KB for each CPU
+		     12 =>   4 KB for each CPU
+
 #
 # Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
 #
diff --git a/kernel/printk/nmi.c b/kernel/printk/nmi.c
index 5465230b75ec..78c07d441b4e 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/nmi.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/nmi.c
@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(printk_func_t, printk_func) = vprintk_default;
 static int printk_nmi_irq_ready;
 atomic_t nmi_message_lost;
 
-#define NMI_LOG_BUF_LEN (4096 - sizeof(atomic_t) - sizeof(struct irq_work))
+#define NMI_LOG_BUF_LEN ((1 << CONFIG_NMI_LOG_BUF_SHIFT) -		\
+			 sizeof(atomic_t) - sizeof(struct irq_work))
 
 struct nmi_seq_buf {
 	atomic_t		len;	/* length of written data */
-- 
1.8.5.6


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-09 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-09 13:21 [PATCH v3 0/4] Cleaning printk stuff in NMI context Petr Mladek
2015-12-09 13:21 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] printk/nmi: Generic solution for safe printk in NMI Petr Mladek
2015-12-09 23:50   ` Andrew Morton
2015-12-10 15:26     ` Petr Mladek
2015-12-09 13:21 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] printk/nmi: Use IRQ work only when ready Petr Mladek
2015-12-09 13:21 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] printk/nmi: Warn when some message has been lost in NMI context Petr Mladek
2015-12-09 13:21 ` Petr Mladek [this message]
2015-12-11 11:10   ` [PATCH v3 4/4] printk/nmi: Increase the size of NMI buffer and make it configurable Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-12-11 12:41     ` Petr Mladek
2015-12-11 12:47       ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-12-11 12:50       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-12-11 22:57       ` Andrew Morton
2015-12-11 23:21         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-12-11 23:26           ` Jiri Kosina
2015-12-18 10:18             ` Daniel Thompson
2015-12-18 11:29               ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-18 12:11                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-18 23:03                   ` Andrew Morton
2015-12-18 14:52               ` Petr Mladek
2015-12-18 17:00                 ` Daniel Thompson
2016-03-01 14:04                   ` Daniel Thompson
2015-12-11 23:30           ` Andrew Morton
2015-12-15 14:26             ` Petr Mladek
2015-12-17 22:38               ` Andrew Morton
2015-12-18 16:18                 ` Petr Mladek
2015-12-14 10:28           ` Daniel Thompson

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