Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add printk maintainers

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 12:20:27PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Dec 2016 18:12:00 +0100
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 03:34:43PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > > We have to find the right balance. For example, we do not show
> > > messages immediately in NMI context because there is a risk
> > > of a deadlock.  
> > 
> > I find the occasional deadlock much preferable to guaranteed no output.
> 
> Right, we can't stress the importance of getting output out when it
> happens. A printk dump is the first course of action when debugging a
> crash. And the printk output shows how much progress the computer made.
> 
> If all printks are asynchronous, that will be unreliable information.

No, that will be _no_ information, since the 'later' part that does the
flush will never happen.

> And really, that information can be extremely useful, but only if it is
> reliable, otherwise, it becomes useless.

Well, if you want reliable get a UART and those 3 patches I did to force
early_printk :-)