printk: Release console_sem after logbuf_lock
authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tue, 7 Jun 2011 09:15:33 +0000 (11:15 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tue, 7 Jun 2011 10:50:02 +0000 (12:50 +0200)
Release console_sem after unlocking the logbuf_lock so that we don't
generate wakeups while holding logbuf_lock. This avoids some lock
inversion troubles once we remove the lockdep_off bits between
logbuf_lock and rq->lock (prints while holding rq->lock vs doing
wakeups while holding logbuf_lock).

There's of course still an actual deadlock where the printk()s under
rq->lock will issue a wakeup from the up() call, but lockdep won't
warn about that since semaphores are not tracked.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-j8swthl12u73h4znbvitljzd@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/printk.c

index 35185392173f5af5fc39fff30cadc115b92114e8..751e7b84e9e3fe3842e49c3b1af03a2987128e93 100644 (file)
@@ -782,7 +782,7 @@ static inline int can_use_console(unsigned int cpu)
 static int console_trylock_for_printk(unsigned int cpu)
        __releases(&logbuf_lock)
 {
-       int retval = 0;
+       int retval = 0, wake = 0;
 
        if (console_trylock()) {
                retval = 1;
@@ -795,12 +795,14 @@ static int console_trylock_for_printk(unsigned int cpu)
                 */
                if (!can_use_console(cpu)) {
                        console_locked = 0;
-                       up(&console_sem);
+                       wake = 1;
                        retval = 0;
                }
        }
        printk_cpu = UINT_MAX;
        spin_unlock(&logbuf_lock);
+       if (wake)
+               up(&console_sem);
        return retval;
 }
 static const char recursion_bug_msg [] =
@@ -1271,8 +1273,8 @@ void console_unlock(void)
        if (unlikely(exclusive_console))
                exclusive_console = NULL;
 
-       up(&console_sem);
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&logbuf_lock, flags);
+       up(&console_sem);
        if (wake_klogd)
                wake_up_klogd();
 }