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Date:   Wed, 19 Oct 2022 18:01:36 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH printk v2 04/38] printk: introduce console_is_enabled()
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On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 05:01:26PM +0206, John Ogness wrote:
> After switching to SRCU for console list iteration, some readers
> will begin accessing console->flags as a data race. This is safe
> because there is at most one CPU modifying console->flags and
> using rmw operations.
> 
> The primary reason for readers to access console->flags is to
> check if the console is enabled. Introduce console_is_enabled()
> to mark such access as a data race.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>