[PATCH] relayfs: remove warning printk() in relay_switch_subbuf()

There's currently a diagnostic printk in relay_switch_subbuf() meant as
a warning if you accidentally try to log an event larger than the
sub-buffer size.

The problem is if this happens while logging from somewhere it's not
safe to be doing printks, such as in the scheduler, you can end up with
a deadlock.  This patch removes the warning from relay_switch_subbuf()
and instead prints some diagnostic info when the channel is closed.

Thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers for pointing out the problem and
suggesting a fix.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/relayfs/relay.c b/fs/relayfs/relay.c
index 16446a15c96d..2a6f7f12b7f9 100644
--- a/fs/relayfs/relay.c
+++ b/fs/relayfs/relay.c
@@ -333,8 +333,7 @@ size_t relay_switch_subbuf(struct rchan_buf *buf, size_t length)
 	return length;
 
 toobig:
-	printk(KERN_WARNING "relayfs: event too large (%Zd)\n", length);
-	WARN_ON(1);
+	buf->chan->last_toobig = length;
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -399,6 +398,11 @@ void relay_close(struct rchan *chan)
 		relay_close_buf(chan->buf[i]);
 	}
 
+	if (chan->last_toobig)
+		printk(KERN_WARNING "relayfs: one or more items not logged "
+		       "[item size (%Zd) > sub-buffer size (%Zd)]\n",
+		       chan->last_toobig, chan->subbuf_size);
+
 	kref_put(&chan->kref, relay_destroy_channel);
 }