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Re: [PATCH 3/3] early_printk: Add simple serialization to early_vprintk()

From Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 3/3] early_printk: Add simple serialization to early_vprintk()
Date 2016-10-18 20:00 +0200
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On Tue, 18 Oct 2016 19:30:46 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 01:19:51PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> Looking at this again, we really should not spin using cmpxchg(), that
> thrashes the cacheline.
> 
> The below is slightly better spinning... then again, this isn't
> performance code.

Yeah, this is similar to the hack I had.

May want to fold this in your previous version.

-- Steve

> 
> --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
> +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
> @@ -376,10 +376,16 @@ static int early_vprintk(const char *fmt
>  
>  	cpu = get_cpu();
>  	for (;;) {
> -		old = cmpxchg(&early_printk_cpu, -1, cpu);
> -		if (old == -1 || old == cpu)
> +		old = READ_ONCE(early_printk_cpu);
> +		if (old == cpu)
>  			break;
>  
> +		if (old == -1) {
> +			old = cmpxchg(&early_printk_cpu, -1, cpu);
> +			if (old == -1 || old == cpu)
> +				break;
> +		}
> +
>  		cpu_relax();
>  	}
>  

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[PATCH 0/3] make printk work again Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-10-18 19:20 +0200
  [PATCH 1/3] printk: Fix kdb_trap_printk placement Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-10-18 19:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/3] printk: Fix kdb_trap_printk placement Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> - 2016-10-19 16:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/3] printk: Fix kdb_trap_printk placement Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-10-19 17:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/3] printk: Fix kdb_trap_printk placement Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2016-10-20 15:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3/3] early_printk: Add simple serialization to early_vprintk() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-10-18 19:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3/3] early_printk: Add simple serialization to  early_vprintk() Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-10-18 19:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 3/3] early_printk: Add simple serialization to  early_vprintk() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-10-18 19:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 3/3] early_printk: Add simple serialization to  early_vprintk() Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-10-18 20:00 +0200
  [PATCH 2/3] early_printk: Add force_early_printk kernel parameter Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-10-18 19:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/3] make printk work again Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-10-19 16:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/3] make printk work again Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2016-10-19 16:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/3] make printk work again Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-10-19 17:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/3] make printk work again Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-10-19 18:20 +0200

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