Re: [printk] fbc14616f4: BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage

[Pavel Machek]

On Wed 2017-04-12 01:19:53, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (04/11/17 10:46), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > On (04/10/17 20:48), Pavel Machek wrote:
> > [..]
> > > > but, once again, I see your point.
> > > 
> > > Good. Does that mean that the next version of patches will work ok in
> > > that case?
> > 
> > yes.
> 
> ok... so I'm looking at something like below right now.
> not really tested yet.
> 
> I put some comments into the code.
> 
> it does offloading after X printed lines by the same process.
> if we reschedule, then the counter resets. which is probably OK,
> we don't really want any process, except for printk_kthread, to
> stay in console_unlock() forever. "number of lines printed" is
> probably easier to understand (easily converted to the number of
> pageup/pagedown you need to press, terminal buffer history size,
> etc.) than seconds we spent on printing (which doesn't even
> correspond to messages' timestamps in general case).

Design looks good to me... certainly better than previous version :-).
								

> when the limit of "number of lines printed" is 0, then no
> offloading takes place.

And with "number of lines printed" set to 999999, it will get us
previous behaviour, right? 

Thanks,
								Pavel

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