Re: [PATCH v3] printk: Avoid softlockups in console_unlock()

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 1 Mar 2013 11:30:27 +0100
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > If a CPU remains in your loop where you invoke rcu_cpu_stall_reset(),
> > there is no indication of the stall.  Now, I do understand why having
> > RCU add a CPU stall warning into the mix would be very bad, but it
> > would be good to have some sort of indication that there is stalling.
> > Perhaps a counter visible in sysfs?  Whatever it is, at least some way
> > of diagnosing the stall condition would be very good.
>   I see. If others (Andrew, ping?) are OK with the rest of the patch, I can
> extend it and add a counter of printk() breaks we had to make. That looks
> like a good idea.

hmpf, spose so.  It sound lke the world's least interesting counter but
perhaps it will look more interesting when we see its sparkly
documentation.
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