On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Chris Lattner wrote:
> Like I said a few times already... kmalloc is only called in a situation
> where deadlock would occur before... I would have no problem calling it
> with GFP_ATOMIC and dropping the message if OOM...
-Is- a deadlock occurring for you, or others, though? If so, we had
better find the problem and fix it before dicking around with making
printk prettier and faster.
I thought this thread was about reducing the time that console_lock
had to be held...
Jeff
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