Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] printk: Fix LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT when BASE_SMALL is enabled

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Thu, Feb 8, 2024 at 2:10 AM Yoann Congal <yoann.congal@xxxxxxxx> 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 <john.ogness@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (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 <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> (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 <yoann.congal@xxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMuHMdWm6u1wX7efZQf=2XUAHascps76YQac6rdnQGhc8nop_Q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/f6856be8-54b7-0fa0-1d17-39632bf29ada@xxxxxxxxxx/
> Fixes: 4e244c10eab3 ("kconfig: remove unneeded symbol_empty variable")
>



All the Reviewed-by tags are dropped every time, annoyingly.




This is equivalent to v4, which had these tags:

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>











> ---
> 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
> --
> 2.39.2
>
>


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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada