Re: 4.14 backport request for dbdda842fe96f: "printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes"

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 10/1/18 10:13 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> Dunno. Is the patch perhaps a bit too complex? This is not exactly
> trivial bugfix.
> 
> pavel@duo:/data/l/clean-cg$ git show dbdda842fe96f | diffstat
>  printk.c |  108
>  ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 
> I see that it is pretty critical to Daniel, but maybe kernel with
> console locking redone should no longer be called 4.4?

In that case it probably should no longer be called 4.4 since at least
Meltdown/Spectre fixes :)