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

[Sergey Senozhatsky]

On (03/12/19 09:17), John Ogness wrote:
> >   wait M times (N - 1). Sounds quadratic.
> 
> If these are critical messages, then we are _not allowed to drop any_!
> For critical messages printk must be synchronous. Thus for critical
> messages the situation you illustrated is appropriate.
> 
> > 40) goto 10
> >
> > So I have some doubts regarding some of assumptions behind new printk
> > design. And the problem is not in prb_lock() unfairness. Current
> > printk design does look to me SMP-friendly; yes, it has unbound
> > printing loop; that can be addressed.
> 
> Let us not forget, it deadlocked the machine. That's the reason this
> thread exists.

It didn't deadlock the machine. It was a typical soft lockup. Printing
CPU loop-ed in console_unlock() with preemption disabled; soft lockup
hrtimer was running on that CPU, but due to disabled preemption around
console_unlock() soft lockup's per-CPU kthread could not get scheduled
and could not update per-CPU touch_ts. Soft lockup hrtimer detected it:

[ 5128.552442] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#9 stuck for 23s! [kworker/9:53:4131]

Along with that RCU was not able to get scheduled. Which was detected
by RCU stall detector:

[ 4891.199009] rcu: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
[ 4891.221308] device-mapper: integrity: Checksum failed at sector 0x118d4f
[ 4891.251366] rcu:     9-....: (1923 ticks this GP) idle=7fa/1/0x4000000000000002 softirq=2190/2190 fqs=15013
[ 4891.251367] rcu:     (detected by 16, t=60054 jiffies, g=24641, q=351)
[ 4891.311941] Sending NMI from CPU 16 to CPUs 9:

[..]
> 2. You seem unwilling to acknowledge the difference between emergency
>    and informational messages. A message is either critical or it is
>    not. If it is, it should be handled as such, regardless of
>    interference, regardless if it means turning an SMP machine into a UP
>    machine. If it is not critical, it should be sent along a
>    non-interfering path so the the system is _not_ affected.

OK.
Let's move on then.

	-ss