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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
To: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: pmladek@suse.com, sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, john.ogness@linutronix.de,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] printk: fix deadlock when kernel panic
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 15:38:44 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YCDcAy39BbPItdGY@jagdpanzerIV.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210206054124.6743-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com>

On (21/02/06 13:41), Muchun Song wrote:
> We found a deadlock bug on our server when the kernel panic. It can be
> described in the following diagram.
> 
> CPU0:                                         CPU1:
> panic                                         rcu_dump_cpu_stacks
>   kdump_nmi_shootdown_cpus                      nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace
>     register_nmi_handler(crash_nmi_callback)      printk_safe_flush
>                                                     __printk_safe_flush
>                                                       raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&read_lock)
>     // send NMI to other processors
>     apic_send_IPI_allbutself(NMI_VECTOR)
>                                                         // NMI interrupt, dead loop
>                                                         crash_nmi_callback

At what point does this decrement num_online_cpus()? Any chance that
panic CPU can apic_send_IPI_allbutself() and printk_safe_flush_on_panic()
before num_online_cpus() becomes 1?

>   printk_safe_flush_on_panic
>     printk_safe_flush
>       __printk_safe_flush
>         // deadlock
>         raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&read_lock)

	-ss

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-08  6:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-06  5:41 Muchun Song
2021-02-08  6:38 ` Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]
2021-02-08  8:49   ` [External] " Muchun Song
2021-02-08 13:12     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-02-08 15:40       ` Muchun Song
2021-02-09  8:39         ` Petr Mladek
2021-02-10  2:25           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-02-09  9:19 ` Petr Mladek
2021-02-09 12:20   ` [External] " Muchun Song
2021-02-10  2:16   ` Sergey Senozhatsky

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