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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
To: Wen Yang <wen.yang99@zte.com.cn>
Cc: jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com, martin.petersen@oracle.com,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Bart.VanAssche@wdc.com, pmladek@suse.com,
	sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com, tj@kernel.org,
	jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn, zhong.weidong@zte.com.cn,
	Tan Hu <tan.hu@zte.com.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] scsi: Introduce sdev_printk_ratelimited to throttle frequent printk
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 11:10:32 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180402021032.GE3795@jagdpanzerIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1522634332-151328-1-git-send-email-wen.yang99@zte.com.cn>

Hello,

On (04/02/18 09:58), Wen Yang wrote:
> There would be so many same lines printed by frequent printk if one 
> disk went wrong, like,
> [  546.185242] sd 0:1:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
> [  546.185258] sd 0:1:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
> [  546.185280] sd 0:1:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
> [  546.185307] sd 0:1:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
> [  546.185334] sd 0:1:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
> [  546.185364] sd 0:1:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
> [  546.185390] sd 0:1:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
> [  546.185410] sd 0:1:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
> For slow serial console, the frequent printk may be blocked for a 
> long time, and if any spin_lock has been acquired before the printk 
> like in scsi_request_fn, watchdog could be triggered.

Did you test the patch? Rate limiting does not completely remove
printk calls. printk is still there, in a loop under spin_lock.
A big enough I/O request queue can cause the same lockup problems.

	-ss

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-02  2:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-02  1:58 Wen Yang
2018-04-02  2:10 ` Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]
     [not found]   ` <201804031419435288297@zte.com.cn>
2018-04-06  8:30     ` 答复: Re: [PATCH v2] scsi: Introduce sdev_printk_ratelimited to throttlefrequent printk Petr Mladek
2018-04-06  8:49       ` Petr Mladek
     [not found]         ` <201804091013439214247@zte.com.cn>
2018-04-09  8:59           ` 答复: Re: 答复: Re: [PATCH v2] scsi: Introduce sdev_printk_ratelimited tothrottlefrequent printk Petr Mladek
2018-04-02  2:37 ` [PATCH v2] scsi: Introduce sdev_printk_ratelimited to throttle frequent printk Jason Yan
     [not found]   ` <201804021314481872986@zte.com.cn>
2018-04-02  5:29     ` 答复: Re: [PATCH v2] scsi: Introduce sdev_printk_ratelimited to throttlefrequent printk Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-04-02  6:07       ` Jason Yan
2018-04-02  6:06     ` Jason Yan

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