Re: [PATCH 04/15] powerpc/powernv: opal-kmsg use flush fallback from console code

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Mon May 07 2018 - 06:36:48 EST


Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Fri, 04 May 2018 15:16:37 +1000
> Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> > Use the more refined and tested event polling loop from opal_put_chars
>> > as the fallback console flush in the opal-kmsg path. This loop is used
>> > by the console driver today, whereas the opal-kmsg fallback is not
>> > likely to have been used for years.
>> >
>> > Use WARN_ONCE rather than a printk when the fallback is invoked to
>> > prepare for moving the console flush into a common function.
>>
>> Do we want to add a WARN in that path? If we're panicking things might
>> get worse if we WARN (which takes a trap).
>
> True, probably a good idea not to... oh there's a printk_once so
> that'll work nicely.

Cool.

I have this series in a tree so you can send me an incremental diff if
it's reasonably small.

cheers