Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Tue, 1 Nov 2016, Lu Baolu wrote:
> +static void early_xdbc_write(struct console *con, const char *str, u32 n)
> +{
> +	int chunk, ret;
> +	static char buf[XDBC_MAX_PACKET];
> +	int use_cr = 0;
> +
> +	if (!xdbc.xdbc_reg)
> +		return;
> +	memset(buf, 0, XDBC_MAX_PACKET);

How is that dealing with reentrancy?

early_printk() does not protect against it. Peter has a patch to prevent
concurrent access from different cpus, but it cannot and will never prevent
reentrancy on the same cpu (interrupt, nmi).

Thanks,

	tglx