Re: [External] Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched: mark PRINTK_DEFERRED_CONTEXT_MASK in __schedule()
From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Mon Sep 28 2020 - 19:50:58 EST
On (20/09/28 12:25), Peter Zijlstra wrote:
[..]
> > printk
> > vprintk_emit
> > console_unlock
> > vt_console_print
> > hide_cursor
> > bit_cursor
> > soft_cursor
> > queue_work_on
> > __queue_work
> > try_to_wake_up
> > _raw_spin_lock
> > native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
> >
> > Looks like it's introduced by this commit:
> >
> > eaa434defaca1781fb2932c685289b610aeb8b4b
> >
> > "drm/fb-helper: Add fb_deferred_io support"
>
> Oh gawd, yeah, all the !serial consoles are utter batshit.
>
> Please look at John's last printk rewrite, IIRC it farms all that off to
> a kernel thread instead of doing it from the printk() caller's context.
Not yet. Scheduler is still part of the printk() - either in the
form of !serial consoles or console_sem, or both.
-ss