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Commitf244b4dc53("printk: ringbuffer: Improve prb_next_seq() performance") introduced an optimization for prb_next_seq() by using best-effort to track recently finalized records. However, the order of finalization does not necessarily match the order of the records. The optimization changed prb_next_seq() to return inconsistent results, possibly yielding sequence numbers that are not available to readers because they are preceded by non-finalized records or they are not yet visible to the reader CPU. Rather than simply best-effort tracking recently finalized records, force the committing writer to read records and increment the last "contiguous block" of finalized records. In order to do this, the sequence number instead of ID must be stored because ID's cannot be directly compared. A new memory barrier pair is introduced to guarantee that a reader can always read the records up until the sequence number returned by prb_next_seq() (unless the records have since been overwritten in the ringbuffer). This restores the original functionality of prb_next_seq() while also keeping the optimization. For 32bit systems, only the lower 32 bits of the sequence number are stored. When reading the value, it is expanded to the full 64bit sequence number using the 32bit seq macros, which fold in the value returned by prb_first_seq(). Fixes:f244b4dc53("printk: ringbuffer: Improve prb_next_seq() performance") Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240207134103.1357162-5-john.ogness@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
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