Re: [PATCH 1/7] printk: Hand over printing to console if printing too long

From: Jan Kara
Date: Tue Jan 05 2016 - 09:37:22 EST


Hi,

On Wed 23-12-15 10:54:49, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> slowly looking through the patches.

Back from Christmas vacation...

> How about setting 'sync_print' to 'true' in...
> bust_spinlocks() /* only set to true */
> or
> console_verbose() /* um... may be... */
> or
> having a separate one-liner for that
>
> void console_panic_mode(void)
> {
> sync_print = true;
> }
>
> and call it early in panic(), before we send out IPI_STOP.

I like using console_verbose() for setting sync_print to true. That will
likely be more reliable than using oops in progress. After all
console_verbose() is used like console_panic_mode() anyway and in quite a
few places so it is a reasonable match.

Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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