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Commit 13fb0f74 authored by Stephen Brennan's avatar Stephen Brennan Committed by Petr Mladek
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printk: Avoid livelock with heavy printk during panic



During panic(), if another CPU is writing heavily the kernel log (e.g.
via /dev/kmsg), then the panic CPU may livelock writing out its messages
to the console. Note when too many messages are dropped during panic and
suppress further printk, except from the panic CPU. This could result in
some important messages being dropped. However, messages are already
being dropped, so this approach at least prevents a livelock.

Reviewed-by: default avatarPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220202171821.179394-4-stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com
parent d5150709
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