[dm-devel] Serial console is causing system lock-up

Sergey Senozhatsky sergey.senozhatsky.work at gmail.com
Thu Mar 7 01:56:52 UTC 2019


On (03/06/19 11:07), Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> This bug only happens if we select large logbuffer (millions of 
> characters). With smaller log buffer, there are messages "** X printk 
> messages dropped", but there's no lockup.
> 
> The kernel apparently puts 2 million characters into a console log buffer, 
> then takes some lock and than tries to write all of them to a slow serial 
> line.

Do you run a preemtible kernel?

	-ss




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