From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757589AbdJKQqv (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2017 12:46:51 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:43138 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751744AbdJKQqu (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2017 12:46:50 -0400 DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 0511B218BC Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=goodmis.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=rostedt@goodmis.org Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 12:46:47 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: LKML Cc: Petr Mladek , Peter Zijlstra , Andrew Morton , Sergey Senozhatsky Subject: [PATCH] printk: Remove superfluous memory barriers from printk_safe Message-ID: <20171011124647.7781f98f@gandalf.local.home> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.0 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) The variable printk_safe_irq_ready is set and never cleared at system boot up, when there's only one CPU active. It is set before other CPUs come on line. Also, it is extremely unlikely that an NMI would trigger this early in boot up (which I wonder why we even have this variable at all). Also mark the printk_safe_irq_ready as read mostly, as it is set at system boot up, and never touched again. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) --- diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk_safe.c b/kernel/printk/printk_safe.c index 3cdaeae..724d929 100644 --- a/kernel/printk/printk_safe.c +++ b/kernel/printk/printk_safe.c @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ * There are situations when we want to make sure that all buffers * were handled or when IRQs are blocked. */ -static int printk_safe_irq_ready; +static int printk_safe_irq_ready __read_mostly; #define SAFE_LOG_BUF_LEN ((1 << CONFIG_PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT) - \ sizeof(atomic_t) - \ @@ -63,11 +63,8 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct printk_safe_seq_buf, nmi_print_seq); /* Get flushed in a more safe context. */ static void queue_flush_work(struct printk_safe_seq_buf *s) { - if (printk_safe_irq_ready) { - /* Make sure that IRQ work is really initialized. */ - smp_rmb(); + if (printk_safe_irq_ready) irq_work_queue(&s->work); - } } /* @@ -398,8 +395,12 @@ void __init printk_safe_init(void) #endif } - /* Make sure that IRQ works are initialized before enabling. */ - smp_wmb(); + /* + * In the highly unlikely event that a NMI were to trigger at + * this moment. Make sure IRQ work is set up before this + * variable is set. + */ + barrier(); printk_safe_irq_ready = 1; /* Flush pending messages that did not have scheduled IRQ works. */