Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] printk: Console owner and waiter logic cleanup

[Tejun Heo]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 02:24:16PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
> This is the last version of Steven's console owner/waiter logic.
> Plus my proposal to hide it into 3 helper functions. It is supposed
> to keep the code maintenable.
> 
> The handshake really works. It happens about 10-times even during
> boot of a simple system in qemu with a fast console here. It is
> definitely able to avoid some softlockups. Let's see if it is
> enough in practice.
> 
> From my point of view, it is ready to go into linux-next so that
> it can get some more test coverage.
> 
> Steven's patch is the v4, see
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171108102723.602216b1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

At least for now,

 Nacked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Maybe this can be a part of solution but it's really worrying how the
whole discussion around this subject is proceeding.  You guys are
trying to railroad actual problems.  Please address actual technical
problems.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun