jiffies got lost because of printk
From: ???
Date: Tue Jul 14 2009 - 07:44:35 EST
Hi there,
We found that system time is not synced with RTC time on our embedded
system.
This is because sometimes we print too many chars to console.
For these lines in the function, release_console_sem, of printk.c,
for ( ; ; ) {
spin_lock_irqsave(&logbuf_lock, flags);
wake_klogd |= log_start - log_end;
if (con_start == log_end)
break; /* Nothing to print */
_con_start = con_start;
_log_end = log_end;
con_start = log_end; /* Flush */
spin_unlock(&logbuf_lock);
call_console_drivers(_con_start, _log_end);
local_irq_restore(flags);
}
Interrupt will be disabled before calling call_console_drivers and enabled
after call_console_drivers finishes.
For the setting of com port baud rate 115200 and HZ 100, if there are more
than 115200/8/100 bytes waiting for output,
interrupt will be disabled for more than 1 HZ and timer interrupt will be
lost.
I know that printing too much in kernel level is not proper. But for 1000HZ,
interrupt may be lost even just output 15 chars.
Any idea?
Regards,
Colin
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