Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759336AbYHHSbw (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2008 14:31:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758985AbYHHSbk (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2008 14:31:40 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:45493 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758891AbYHHSbj (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2008 14:31:39 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 11:30:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Peter Zijlstra cc: Andrew Morton , mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, marcin.slusarz@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Miller , Steven Rostedt , Paul E McKenney Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: robustify printk In-Reply-To: <1218219269.29098.5.camel@lappy.programming.kicks-ass.net> Message-ID: References: <20080324122424.671168000@chello.nl> <1206382547.6437.131.camel@lappy> <20080324115738.85c72bb5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1218202249.8625.106.camel@twins> <1218215454.8625.133.camel@twins> <1218217257.29098.2.camel@lappy.programming.kicks-ass.net> <1218219269.29098.5.camel@lappy.programming.kicks-ass.net> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 588 Lines: 17 On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Avoid deadlocks against rq->lock and xtime_lock by using RCU to defer > the klogd wakeup. Ok, I can't see anything wrong with this from the patch. I do hate that deadlock, so I think I'll apply it. But I'll try to hold off for a while in case somebody has any last-minute comments.. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/