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Date:   Mon, 6 May 2019 10:16:14 +0200
From:   Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To:     Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc:     Intel Graphics Development <intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: console: hack up console_lock more v2
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On Mon 2019-05-06 09:45:53, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> console_trylock, called from within printk, can be called from pretty
> much anywhere. Including try_to_wake_up. Note that this isn't common,
> usually the box is in pretty bad shape at that point already. But it
> really doesn't help when then lockdep jumps in and spams the logs,
> potentially obscuring the real backtrace we're really interested in.
> One case I've seen (slightly simplified backtrace):
> 
>  Call Trace:
>   <IRQ>
>   console_trylock+0xe/0x60
>   vprintk_emit+0xf1/0x320
>   printk+0x4d/0x69
>   __warn_printk+0x46/0x90
>   native_smp_send_reschedule+0x2f/0x40
>   check_preempt_curr+0x81/0xa0
>   ttwu_do_wakeup+0x14/0x220
>   try_to_wake_up+0x218/0x5f0

try_to_wake_up() takes p->pi_lock. It could deadlock because it
can get called recursively from printk_safe_up().

And there are more locks taken from try_to_wake_up(), for example,
__task_rq_lock() taken from ttwu_remote().

IMHO, the most reliable solution would be do call the entire
up_console_sem() from printk deferred context. We could assign
few bytes for this context in the per-CPU printk_deferred
variable.

Best Regards,
Petr