linux/debian/patches-rt/0209-printk-Drop-the-logbuf_lock-more-often.patch

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:01:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 209/290] printk: Drop the logbuf_lock more often
Origin: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-stable-rt.git/commit?id=3bfadd9fc97cf1d7877b7d67316d67a96e82f182

The lock is hold with irgs off. The latency drops 500us+ on my arm bugs
with a "full" buffer after executing "dmesg" on the shell.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
---
 kernel/printk/printk.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index 1935cf91db0c..3b0f90ace2f1 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -1420,12 +1420,23 @@ static int syslog_print_all(char __user *buf, int size, bool clear)
 	u64 next_seq;
 	u64 seq;
 	u32 idx;
+	int attempts = 0;
+	int num_msg;
 
 	text = kmalloc(LOG_LINE_MAX + PREFIX_MAX, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!text)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	logbuf_lock_irq();
+
+try_again:
+	attempts++;
+	if (attempts > 10) {
+		len = -EBUSY;
+		goto out;
+	}
+	num_msg = 0;
+
 	/*
 	 * Find first record that fits, including all following records,
 	 * into the user-provided buffer for this dump.
@@ -1438,6 +1449,14 @@ static int syslog_print_all(char __user *buf, int size, bool clear)
 		len += msg_print_text(msg, true, NULL, 0);
 		idx = log_next(idx);
 		seq++;
+		num_msg++;
+		if (num_msg > 5) {
+			num_msg = 0;
+			logbuf_unlock_irq();
+			logbuf_lock_irq();
+			if (clear_seq < log_first_seq)
+				goto try_again;
+		}
 	}
 
 	/* move first record forward until length fits into the buffer */
@@ -1449,6 +1468,14 @@ static int syslog_print_all(char __user *buf, int size, bool clear)
 		len -= msg_print_text(msg, true, NULL, 0);
 		idx = log_next(idx);
 		seq++;
+		num_msg++;
+		if (num_msg > 5) {
+			num_msg = 0;
+			logbuf_unlock_irq();
+			logbuf_lock_irq();
+			if (clear_seq < log_first_seq)
+				goto try_again;
+		}
 	}
 
 	/* last message fitting into this dump */
@@ -1486,6 +1513,7 @@ static int syslog_print_all(char __user *buf, int size, bool clear)
 		clear_seq = log_next_seq;
 		clear_idx = log_next_idx;
 	}
+out:
 	logbuf_unlock_irq();
 
 	kfree(text);