Re: [PATCH 01/23 -v6] printk - dont wakeup klogd with interruptsdisabled

[Steven Rostedt]

On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> Right, while this might appear to be sound, I hate to point out that we
> only want to exclude it when current holds the rq->lock. This could lead
> to spuriously missing klogd wakeups because other cpus hold our
> rq->lock.

Hmm, good point. Not hard to solve ;-)

>
> Now, is this klogd thing only relevant for dumping stuff into the log,
> or also for writing stuff out to the serial line?

It's only responsible for the log (userland stuff).

-- Steve

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