Re: [PATCH 9/9] printk: Wake up klogd using irq_work

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Nov 16 2012 - 11:13:24 EST


On Fri, 2012-11-16 at 03:21 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> klogd is woken up asynchronously from the tick in order
> to do it safely.
>
> However if printk is called when the tick is stopped, the reader
> won't be woken up until the next interrupt, which might not fire
> for a while. As a result, the user may miss some message.
>
> To fix this, lets implement the printk tick using a lazy irq work.
> This subsystem takes care of the timer tick state and can
> fix up accordingly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

You can add my ack to the rest of this series too.

-- Steve


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