[BUG] Threaded printk breaks early debugging

[Peter Geis]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 11:11 AM Petr Mladek <pmladek at suse.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon 2022-06-13 04:29:50, John Ogness wrote:
> > On 2022-06-12, Peter Geis <pgwipeout at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > The buffer isn't an issue here, everything is available in dmesg when
> > > userspace becomes available. Instead some messages bound for the
> > > serial console are never output.
> >
> > OK. Good to know.
> >
> > > We run a serial console at 1.5m baud which is significantly higher
> > > than most SoCs which default to 115200. I have noticed some timing
> > > differences since the introduction of the threaded console. A
> > > significant amount of information is dumped very early in the boot
> > > process (between 0 and 4 seconds into boot), as most drivers are
> > > probing during this time. It also happens to be when the earlycon
> > > console hands over to the normal console. There is no abnormal
> > > debugging enabled, the output is a standard (non-quiet) boot log. The
> > > question is why is direct mode not triggering during a panic?
> >
> > Just to be clear, you are not losing any intermediate messages. Only the
> > tail end of the kernel log was never printed. Is this correct?
> >
> > This may be the same issue being discussed here [0].
> >
> > John Ogness
> >
> > [0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/87v8t5l39z.fsf@jogness.linutronix.de
>
> If the last messages are missing then it is most likely the same
> issue.
>
> Peter, could you please try if the patch at
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/YqdSw/fJvnkRbjvc@alley
> would make any difference?

This patch permits the panic to come through to the console port. Thank you!
Tested-by: Peter Geis <pgwipeout at gmail.com>

>
> Best Regards,
> Petr