Re: Would you help to tell why async printk solution was not taken to upstream kernel ?

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Mon Mar 05 2018 - 22:16:53 EST


On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 11:53:50 +0900
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> Yes. My point was that "CPU can print one full buffer max" is not
> guaranteed and not exactly true. There are ways for CPUs to break
> that O(logbuf) boundary.

Yes, when printk or the consoles have a bug, it can be greater than
O(logbuf).

-- Steve