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Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 18:59:49 +0200
From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-next] printk: nbcon: Fix
 nbcon_cpu_emergency_flush() when preemptible
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On Wed 2024-06-05 11:57:34, John Ogness wrote:
> nbcon_cpu_emergency_flush() can be called in a preemptible
> context. In that case the CPU is not in an emergency state.
> However, in order to see that the CPU is not in an emergency
> state (accessing the per-cpu variable), preemption must be
> disabled.
> 
> Disable preemption when checking the CPU state.
> 
> Reported-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/aqkcpca4vgadxc3yzcu74xwq3grslj5m43f3eb5fcs23yo2gy4@gcsnqcts5tos
> Fixes: 46a1379208b7 ("printk: nbcon: Implement emergency sections")
> Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>

JFYI, the patch has been comitted into printk/linux.git,
branch rework/write-atomic.

Best Regards,
Petr