Re: Regression in v4.19.106 breaking waking up of readers of /proc/kmsg and /dev/kmsg
From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Mon Mar 02 2020 - 04:59:22 EST
On (20/03/02 10:49), Petr Mladek wrote:
[..]
> It is just a detail. But I would make the flag independent
> on the existing printk_safe stuff. printk_safe will get removed
> with the lockless printk buffer. While the irq_work() will still
> be needed for the wakeup functions.
Yeah, somehow I thought, for a moment, that we would also remove
printk_deferred() once we have lockless buffer, but seems that we
can remove it only when console_sem is gone.
> Sergey, do you agree and want to update your patch accordingly?
Yes, can update the patch.
-ss