Re: [PATCH printk v2 1/1] printk: nbcon: Allow unsafe write_atomic() for panic

[Petr Mladek]

On Tue 2025-11-04 01:56:07, Breno Leitao wrote:
> Hello John,
> 
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 10:02:06AM +0106, John Ogness wrote:
> > > I am not sure how to move forward. IMHO, the original plan was to push
> > > this patch together with the other netconsole-related changes. In this
> > > case, the conflicts will need to be solved when merging pull requests
> > > from netconsole and printk trees. Well, the conflicts are trivial.
> > >
> > > Or I could push this patch via the printk tree and queue it for 6.19.
> > > But this might be too late for netconsole.
> > 
> > @Breno: This new feature only exists for netconsole at the moment, so I
> > am fine with it going through the netconsole tree. But we need to decide
> > this soon because there are a lot of printk-changes queued for 6.19 that
> > conflict with this patch and we should get those sorted out sooner
> > rather than later. (Note that the patch in its current form will also
> > conflict with the netconsole tree, so regardless of our decision I need
> > to submit a new version.)
> 
> I would prefer you do it through the printk tree for 6.19 and I use it
> in the next releae (6.20).

OK, I have just committed the patch into printk/linux.git,
branch rework/write_atomic-unsafe. It is intended for 6.19 merge window.


> I do NOT have plans for integrating the port of netcon to nbcon
> in 6.19, given I have other issues to solve first (described in [1] for
> curious souls), and I am still a bit stuck with [2]. Given all of these
> patch conflict, these patches are being a bit serial at this time.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/swdpckuwwlv3uiessmtnf2jwlx3jusw6u7fpk5iggqo4t2vdws@7rpjso4gr7qp/ [1]
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251103-fix_netpoll_aa-v4-1-4cfecdf6da7c@xxxxxxxxxx/ [2]

Good to know.

Best Regards,
Petr