RE: [PATCH] printk: fixing the deadlock when calling printk in nmihandle

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Jul 04 2012 - 10:50:44 EST


On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 14:46 +0000, Liu, Chuansheng wrote:
> > > I took many time to dig out this issue.
> >
> > Well, it was a known issue..
> Still feel unfair :)
> If this is a known issue that calling printk is not safe in nmi handler,
> Why not defense it like this patch before real solution coming out?

Why replace one broken thing with another broken thing?

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