Re: perf: perf_fuzzer quickly locks up on 4.15-rc7

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Jan 09 2018 - 11:20:45 EST


On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 05:16:06PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > + force_early_printk
> > + Forcefully uses early_console (as per earlyprintk=)
> > + usage for regular printk, bypassing everything,
> > + including the syslog (dmesg will be empty).
>
> BTW., this looks very useful - please consider pushing it upstream if it does not
> hurt any of the other syslog usecases.

I've posted it a number of times, the printk people didn't hate it but
haven't merged it either. Instead they continue working on making it a
bigger trainwreck...

I'll post it again later when we're not chasing spectres and meltdowns.