Re: printk in atomic context

From: Zwane Mwaikambo (zwane@arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: Wed Jul 09 2003 - 01:48:11 EST

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On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, [koi8-r] "Andrey Borzenkov[koi8-r] " wrote:

>
> Is it possible (safe) to use printk in atomic context, i.e. under
> spinlock or inside of preemption-disabled region?
>
> The same question about 2.4 (here I guess only spinlock?)

Yes you can, it's rather robust.

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