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| From | Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCHv2 4/8] pm: switch to printk.emergency mode in unsafe places |
| Date | 2017-04-10 16:40 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <tuIE3-1UB-29@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On (04/10/17 14:20), Petr Mladek wrote:
[..]
> > Sergey has mentioned it already:
> > "at some point freezes user space and kernel threads".
> > Well, this is the action which is *itself* causing thoroughly disrupting consequences,
> > which I'd think thus ought to be responsible to
> > ensure *itself* that all resulting consequences actually can be dealt with properly,
> > rather than having
> > weird *completely-unrelated-dependency* crap
> > ("there happens to be some functionality called printk, and we need to bend it,
> > since we need to bend it, since otherwise it would not be bent" - ahem...)
> > leak into ("layer violation" keyword)
> > pm handling implementation specifics.
> > IOW, I would think that for any relevant kthread use in API user code,
> > such code ought to be able to
> > register kthread-API-provided callbacks (observer pattern, or whatever)
> > where the (back to current case:) printk kthread would then be able to
> > *implicitly*/*invisibly* switch the entire printk operation interface
> > (e.g. via a global interface struct) to
> > the "dumb"/"safe" fallback variant.
> > Potential interface: kthread_notify(callback_func, kthread_notification_type);
>
> Interesting idea. The power management area probably can be solved
> by the existing notifiers framework.
good idea indeed.
wish we also had kexec and sysrq notifiers :) there is a
`panic_notifier_list', but that's not exactly what we need.
[..]
> > Put differently,
> > handling preferrably ought to get consistently adapted (i.e., switched) *centrally*,
> > rather than
> > requiring weird helpers (printk_emergency_X()) at all user code sites.
>
> Note that there already all many printk/console related "hacks"
> in sensitive code paths. For example, see the use of
> pm_prepare_console(), suspend_console(), console_level.
yep. I wonder if some of those can be moved to printk pm notifiers.
but that's out of the scope of this patch set.
-ss
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[RFC][PATCHv2 0/8] printk: introduce printing kernel thread Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2017-03-29 11:30 +0200
[RFC][PATCHv2 2/8] printk: introduce printing kernel thread Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2017-03-29 11:30 +0200
Re: [RFC][PATCHv2 2/8] printk: introduce printing kernel thread Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> - 2017-04-04 11:10 +0200
Re: [RFC][PATCHv2 2/8] printk: introduce printing kernel thread Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-04-04 11:40 +0200
Re: [RFC][PATCHv2 2/8] printk: introduce printing kernel thread Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-04-06 19:20 +0200
Re: [RFC][PATCHv2 2/8] printk: introduce printing kernel thread Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-04-07 07:20 +0200
Re: [RFC][PATCHv2 2/8] printk: introduce printing kernel thread Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-04-07 09:30 +0200
Re: [RFC][PATCHv2 2/8] printk: introduce printing kernel thread Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-04-07 10:20 +0200
Re: [RFC][PATCHv2 2/8] printk: introduce printing kernel thread Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-04-07 14:10 +0200
[RFC][PATCHv2 5/8] sysrq: switch to printk.emergency mode in unsafe places Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2017-03-29 11:30 +0200
Re: [RFC][PATCHv2 5/8] sysrq: switch to printk.emergency mode in unsafe places Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> - 2017-03-31 17:40 +0200
Re: [RFC][PATCHv2 5/8] sysrq: switch to printk.emergency mode in unsafe places Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2017-04-01 02:10 +0200
[RFC][PATCHv2 1/8] printk: move printk_pending out of per-cpu Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2017-03-29 11:40 +0200
Re: [RFC][PATCHv2 1/8] printk: move printk_pending out of per-cpu Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> - 2017-03-31 15:20 +0200
Re: [RFC][PATCHv2 1/8] printk: move printk_pending out of per-cpu Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-31 15:40 +0200
Re: [RFC][PATCHv2 1/8] printk: move printk_pending out of per-cpu Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-04-03 13:30 +0200
Re: [RFC][PATCHv2 1/8] printk: move printk_pending out of per-cpu Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> - 2017-04-03 14:50 +0200
[RFC][PATCHv2 6/8] kexec: switch to printk.emergency mode in unsafe places Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2017-03-29 11:40 +0200
Re: [RFC][PATCHv2 6/8] kexec: switch to printk.emergency mode in unsafe places Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> - 2017-03-31 17:40 +0200
[RFC][PATCHv2 8/8] printk: enable printk offloading Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2017-03-29 11:40 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-03-31 04:40 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-03-31 06:10 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Ye Xiaolong <xiaolong.ye@intel.com> - 2017-03-31 08:50 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2017-03-31 16:50 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2017-03-31 17:40 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2017-04-03 11:40 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> - 2017-04-03 12:10 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-04-06 19:40 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-04-07 06:50 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-04-07 09:20 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-04-07 09:50 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-04-07 10:20 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-04-07 14:20 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-04-07 14:50 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2017-04-07 16:50 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2017-04-07 17:20 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-04-07 17:30 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2017-04-07 17:50 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2017-04-09 20:30 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-04-10 06:50 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-04-09 12:20 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-04-10 07:00 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> - 2017-04-10 14:00 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2017-04-10 17:10 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-04-10 20:50 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-04-11 03:50 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2017-04-11 18:30 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-04-12 20:50 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-04-13 06:40 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-04-13 08:00 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-04-13 10:30 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> - 2017-04-13 16:10 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-04-14 06:50 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2017-04-07 16:40 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-04-09 12:00 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-04-03 13:00 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Ye Xiaolong <xiaolong.ye@intel.com> - 2017-04-05 09:40 +0200
Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-04-05 10:50 +0200
Re: [RFC][PATCHv2 8/8] printk: enable printk offloading Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> - 2017-04-03 17:50 +0200
Re: [RFC][PATCHv2 8/8] printk: enable printk offloading Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2017-04-04 14:30 +0200
[RFC][PATCHv2 4/8] pm: switch to printk.emergency mode in unsafe places Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2017-03-29 11:40 +0200
Re: [RFC][PATCHv2 4/8] pm: switch to printk.emergency mode in unsafe places Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> - 2017-03-31 17:10 +0200
Re: [RFC][PATCHv2 4/8] pm: switch to printk.emergency mode in unsafe places Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-04-06 19:30 +0200
Re: [RFC][PATCHv2 4/8] pm: switch to printk.emergency mode in unsafe places Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> - 2017-04-09 13:00 +0200
Re: [RFC][PATCHv2 4/8] pm: switch to printk.emergency mode in unsafe places Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> - 2017-04-10 14:30 +0200
Re: [RFC][PATCHv2 4/8] pm: switch to printk.emergency mode in unsafe places Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2017-04-10 16:40 +0200
[RFC][PATCHv2 7/8] printk: add printk emergency_mode parameter Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2017-03-29 11:40 +0200
Re: [RFC][PATCHv2 7/8] printk: add printk emergency_mode parameter Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> - 2017-04-03 17:30 +0200
Re: [RFC][PATCHv2 7/8] printk: add printk emergency_mode parameter Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-04-04 10:30 +0200
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