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Date:   Tue, 9 Apr 2019 15:18:42 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
To:     Jinyoung Park <gt.jypark@gmail.com>
Cc:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
        Alex Van Brunt <avanbrunt@nvidia.com>,
        Ketan Patil <ketanp@nvidia.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] arch: arm64: process: Unlock console after SMP
 stopped
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On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 11:17:14PM +0900, Jinyoung Park wrote:
> If the console lock is held by other CPU running while the system is
> restarting or shutting down, the Kernel messages in the printk log buffer
> can not be printed out to the console drivers. The Kernel messages can be
> lost or messed up.
> This change calls console_unlock after SMP stopped to flush the kernel
> messages in the printk log buffer to the console drivers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jinyoung Park <jinyoungp@nvidia.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/process.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
> index 3767fb21a5b8..d629a75c7602 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
> @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
>  #include <trace/events/power.h>
>  #include <linux/percpu.h>
>  #include <linux/thread_info.h>
> +#include <linux/console.h>
> 
>  #include <asm/alternative.h>
>  #include <asm/arch_gicv3.h>
> @@ -164,6 +165,7 @@ void machine_halt(void)
>  {
>   local_irq_disable();
>   smp_send_stop();
> + console_unlock();
>   while (1);
>  }
> 
> @@ -177,6 +179,7 @@ void machine_power_off(void)
>  {
>   local_irq_disable();
>   smp_send_stop();
> + console_unlock();
>   if (pm_power_off)
>   pm_power_off();
>  }
> @@ -195,6 +198,7 @@ void machine_restart(char *cmd)
>   /* Disable interrupts first */
>   local_irq_disable();
>   smp_send_stop();
> + console_unlock();

Hmm, why don't other architectures seem to do this?

Will