mirror of https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: 林建安 <colin@realtek.com.tw>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: jiffies got lost because of printk
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:39:03 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48F90369174947C98F6AE82888FA60C5@realtek.com.tw> (raw)


Hi there,
We found that system time is not synced with RTC time on our embedded 
system.
This is because sometimes we print too many chars to console.
For these lines in the function, release_console_sem, of printk.c,
        for ( ; ; ) {
                spin_lock_irqsave(&logbuf_lock, flags);
                wake_klogd |= log_start - log_end;
                if (con_start == log_end)
                        break;                  /* Nothing to print */
                _con_start = con_start;
                _log_end = log_end;
                con_start = log_end;            /* Flush */
                spin_unlock(&logbuf_lock);
                call_console_drivers(_con_start, _log_end);
                local_irq_restore(flags);
        }

Interrupt will be disabled before calling call_console_drivers and enabled 
after call_console_drivers finishes.
For the setting of com port baud rate 115200 and HZ 100, if there are more 
than 115200/8/100 bytes waiting for output,
interrupt will be disabled for more than 1 HZ and timer interrupt will be 
lost.
I know that printing too much in kernel level is not proper. But for 1000HZ, 
interrupt may be lost even just output 15 chars.
Any idea?

Regards,
Colin



             reply	other threads:[~2009-07-14 11:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-14 11:39 林建安 [this message]
2009-07-14 15:23 ` Linus Walleij

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=48F90369174947C98F6AE82888FA60C5@realtek.com.tw \
    --to=colin@realtek.com.tw \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox

all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®