Re: [debug patch] printk: Add a printk killswitch to robustify NMIwatchdog messages

[Ingo Molnar]

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> The real fix might be to remove the lockdep_off()/on() call from 
> printk(), that looks actively evil ... we had to hack through 
> several layers of side-effects before we found the real bug - so 
> it's not like the off()/on() made things more robust!

The other obvious fix would be to *remove* the blasted wakeup from 
printk(). It's a serious debugging robustness violation and it's not 
like the wakeup is super important latency-wise.

We *already* have a timer tick driven klogd wakeup poll routine. So i 
doubt we'd have many problems from not doing wakeups from printk(). 
Opinions?

Thanks,

	Ingo
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