Re: [PATCH tty v11 1/2] serial: 8250: Switch to nbcon console, take 2

[John Ogness]

Hi Jon,

On 2026-08-26, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If that irq_work is the problem that making nbcon_irq_work LAZY should
> delay it, masking the problem.

Making nbcon_irq_work LAZY should work around this problem. And,
actually, it should be fine to make nbcon_irq_work LAZY in general since
it is only related to non-emergency messages, which are delayed anyway.

Jon, could you run your tests with only the following patch applied? If
this works for you, I will submit an official version of the patch.

diff --git a/kernel/printk/nbcon.c b/kernel/printk/nbcon.c
index a5921a84a80ed..ad79e30afd647 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/nbcon.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/nbcon.c
@@ -1782,7 +1782,7 @@ bool nbcon_alloc(struct console *con)
 	}
 
 	rcuwait_init(&con->rcuwait);
-	init_irq_work(&con->irq_work, nbcon_irq_work);
+	con->irq_work = IRQ_WORK_INIT_LAZY(nbcon_irq_work);
 	atomic_long_set(&ACCESS_PRIVATE(con, nbcon_prev_seq), -1UL);
 	nbcon_state_set(con, &state);