Re: [PATCH printk v2 2/2] printk: Avoid scheduling irq_work on suspend

From: Petr Mladek

Date: Wed Nov 26 2025 - 04:22:47 EST


On Tue 2025-11-25 14:24:55, Derek Barbosa wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 02:15:09PM -0500, Derek Barbosa wrote:
> > Hi John,
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 06:12:57PM +0106, John Ogness wrote:
> > >
> > > I assume the problem you are seeing is with the PREEMPT_RT patches
> > > applied (i.e. with the 8250-NBCON included). If that is the case, note
> > > that recent versions of the 8250 driver introduce its own irq_work that
> > > is also problematic. I am currently reworking the 8250-NBCON series so
> > > that it does not introduce irq_work.
> > >
>
>
> Hi John,
>
> Apologies for the late reply here. Just now got some results in.

No problem at all.

> Testing this patch series atop of Linus' tree resolves the suspend issue seen on
> these large CPU workstation systems.

Thanks a lot for checking the patches. It is great to know that it
resolved the problem.

> I see this has already landed in the maintainers tree at printk/linux.git.

Yes, I wanted to have it in linux-next in time before the merge window opens
for 6.19 (likely next week).

Best Regards,
Petr