From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:59:43 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: printk: use RCU to prevent potential lock contention in kmsg_dump
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.38-rc1~370
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fb842b00c5eab66ec361b31550aa8a922745ce9e;p=pandora-kernel.git

printk: use RCU to prevent potential lock contention in kmsg_dump

dump_list_lock is used to protect dump_list in kmsg_dumper implementation,
kmsg_dump() uses it to traverse dump_list too.  But if there is contention
on the lock, kmsg_dump() will fail, and the valuable kernel message may be
lost.

This patch solves this issue with RCU.  Because kmsg_dump() only read the
list, no lock is needed in kmsg_dump().  So that kmsg_dump() will never
fail because of lock contention.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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