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Subject: Re: [PATCH printk v5 00/40] reduce console_lock scope
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On Fri 2022-11-18 12:22:58, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Wed 2022-11-16 17:27:12, John Ogness wrote:
> > This is v5 of a series to prepare for threaded/atomic
> > printing. v4 is here [0]. This series focuses on reducing the
> > scope of the BKL console_lock. It achieves this by switching to
> > SRCU and a dedicated mutex for console list iteration and
> > modification, respectively. The console_lock will no longer
> > offer this protection.
> 
> The patchset looks ready for linux-next from my POV.
> 
> I am going to push it there right now to get as much testing
> as possible before the merge window.

JFYI, the patchset is committed in printk/linux.git,
branch rework/console-list-lock.

I'll eventually merge it into rework/kthreads. But I wanted to have
it separated until it gets some more testing in linux-next and
eventually some more review.

Best Regards,
Petr