Re: [PATCH 5.10-rt] printk: ignore that console preempted by irq/softirq

[John Ogness]

On 2024-05-28, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There is a `may_sleep` variable set earlier. Couldn't that be re-used?

Since the printing thread cannot preempt the softirq context and since
the printing threads are not started before @system_state is
SYSTEM_RUNNING, using @may_sleep is OK.

if (!may_sleep &&
    con->thread &&
    task_cpu(con->thread) == smp_processor_id()) {
	continue;
}

John Ogness