2024-02-06 00:14:23

by Yoann Congal

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Subject: [PATCH v4 1/3] printk: Fix LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT when BASE_SMALL is enabled

LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT default value depends on BASE_SMALL:
config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
default 0 if BASE_SMALL
But, BASE_SMALL is a config of type int and "!BASE_SMALL" is always
evaluated to true whatever is the value of BASE_SMALL.

This patch fixes this by using the correct conditional operator for int
type : BASE_SMALL != 0.

Note: This changes CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT=12 to
CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT=0 for BASE_SMALL defconfigs, but that will
not be a big impact due to this code in kernel/printk/printk.c:
/* by default this will only continue through for large > 64 CPUs */
if (cpu_extra <= __LOG_BUF_LEN / 2)
return;
Systems using CONFIG_BASE_SMALL and having 64+ CPUs should be quite
rare.

John Ogness <[email protected]> (printk reviewer) wrote:
> For printk this will mean that BASE_SMALL systems were probably
> previously allocating/using the dynamic ringbuffer and now they will
> just continue to use the static ringbuffer. Which is fine and saves
> memory (as it should).

Petr Mladek <[email protected]> (printk maintainer) wrote:
> More precisely, it allocated the buffer dynamically when the sum
> of per-CPU-extra space exceeded half of the default static ring
> buffer. This happened for systems with more than 64 CPUs with
> the default config values.

Signed-off-by: Yoann Congal <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMuHMdWm6u1wX7efZQf=2XUAHascps76YQac6rdnQGhc8nop_Q@mail.gmail.com/
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <[email protected]>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
Fixes: 4e244c10eab3 ("kconfig: remove unneeded symbol_empty variable")

---
v3->v4:
* Fix BASE_SMALL usage instead of switching to BASE_FULL because
BASE_FULL will be removed in the next patches of this series.
---
init/Kconfig | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index deda3d14135bb..d50ebd2a2ce42 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -734,8 +734,8 @@ config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
depends on SMP
range 0 21
- default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
- default 0 if BASE_SMALL
+ default 0 if BASE_SMALL != 0
+ default 12
depends on PRINTK
help
This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
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2.39.2



2024-02-06 09:04:01

by Petr Mladek

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] printk: Fix LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT when BASE_SMALL is enabled

On Tue 2024-02-06 01:13:31, Yoann Congal wrote:
> LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT default value depends on BASE_SMALL:
> config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
> default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
> default 0 if BASE_SMALL
> But, BASE_SMALL is a config of type int and "!BASE_SMALL" is always
> evaluated to true whatever is the value of BASE_SMALL.
>
> This patch fixes this by using the correct conditional operator for int
> type : BASE_SMALL != 0.
>
> Note: This changes CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT=12 to
> CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT=0 for BASE_SMALL defconfigs, but that will
> not be a big impact due to this code in kernel/printk/printk.c:
> /* by default this will only continue through for large > 64 CPUs */
> if (cpu_extra <= __LOG_BUF_LEN / 2)
> return;
> Systems using CONFIG_BASE_SMALL and having 64+ CPUs should be quite
> rare.
>
> John Ogness <[email protected]> (printk reviewer) wrote:
> > For printk this will mean that BASE_SMALL systems were probably
> > previously allocating/using the dynamic ringbuffer and now they will
> > just continue to use the static ringbuffer. Which is fine and saves
> > memory (as it should).
>
> Petr Mladek <[email protected]> (printk maintainer) wrote:
> > More precisely, it allocated the buffer dynamically when the sum
> > of per-CPU-extra space exceeded half of the default static ring
> > buffer. This happened for systems with more than 64 CPUs with
> > the default config values.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yoann Congal <[email protected]>
> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMuHMdWm6u1wX7efZQf=2XUAHascps76YQac6rdnQGhc8nop_Q@mail.gmail.com/
> Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <[email protected]>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
> Fixes: 4e244c10eab3 ("kconfig: remove unneeded symbol_empty variable")

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <[email protected]>

Best Regards,
Petr

2024-02-06 23:05:50

by Masahiro Yamada

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] printk: Fix LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT when BASE_SMALL is enabled

On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 9:13 AM Yoann Congal <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT default value depends on BASE_SMALL:
> config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
> default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
> default 0 if BASE_SMALL
> But, BASE_SMALL is a config of type int and "!BASE_SMALL" is always
> evaluated to true whatever is the value of BASE_SMALL.
>
> This patch fixes this by using the correct conditional operator for int
> type : BASE_SMALL != 0.
>
> Note: This changes CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT=12 to
> CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT=0 for BASE_SMALL defconfigs, but that will
> not be a big impact due to this code in kernel/printk/printk.c:
> /* by default this will only continue through for large > 64 CPUs */
> if (cpu_extra <= __LOG_BUF_LEN / 2)
> return;
> Systems using CONFIG_BASE_SMALL and having 64+ CPUs should be quite
> rare.
>
> John Ogness <[email protected]> (printk reviewer) wrote:
> > For printk this will mean that BASE_SMALL systems were probably
> > previously allocating/using the dynamic ringbuffer and now they will
> > just continue to use the static ringbuffer. Which is fine and saves
> > memory (as it should).
>
> Petr Mladek <[email protected]> (printk maintainer) wrote:
> > More precisely, it allocated the buffer dynamically when the sum
> > of per-CPU-extra space exceeded half of the default static ring
> > buffer. This happened for systems with more than 64 CPUs with
> > the default config values.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yoann Congal <[email protected]>
> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMuHMdWm6u1wX7efZQf=2XUAHascps76YQac6rdnQGhc8nop_Q@mail.gmail.com/
> Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <[email protected]>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
> Fixes: 4e244c10eab3 ("kconfig: remove unneeded symbol_empty variable")



Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>





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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada