Re: [PATCH 2/2] printk: wake up klogd in vprintk_emit

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 17:02:14 +0200
Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Calling wake_up_klogd() will grab the rq lock and give us a A-B<->B-A
> > locking order.  
> 
> wake_up_klogd() uses the lockless irq_work_queue(). So it is actually
> safe.

I didn't look at the code. OK then we don't need to worry about that.

> 
> But the name is confusing. We should rename it.

Yes, I would because the old wake_up_klogd() did do a wakeup. Perhaps
we should name it: kick_klogd().

-- Steve