Re: deadlock caused by printk

From: Ming Lei
Date: Fri Mar 25 2011 - 10:30:33 EST


Hi,

2011/3/25 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> One thing you could to is use trace_printk() and use ftrace to debug
>> perf.
>
> That should still work.

I will try it, thanks.

But seems ftrace can't dump out the messages if system hangs, so could
we introduce a smart and simple "printk" which can be used in any
contexts?

thanks,
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Lei Ming
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