Don't 'printk()' while holding xtime lock for writing
The printk() can deadlock because it can wake up klogd(), and
task enqueueing will try to read the time in order to set a hrtimer.
Reported-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Debugged-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index 671af61..a3fa587 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -191,8 +191,12 @@
tick_clock_notify();
+ /*
+ * We're holding xtime lock and waking up klogd would deadlock
+ * us on enqueue. So no printing!
printk(KERN_INFO "Time: %s clocksource has been installed.\n",
clock->name);
+ */
}
#else
static inline void change_clocksource(void) { }