Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758752AbYHHSeE (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2008 14:34:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753206AbYHHSdz (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2008 14:33:55 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:34272 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752654AbYHHSdy (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2008 14:33:54 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: robustify printk From: Peter Zijlstra To: Linus Torvalds 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 In-Reply-To: 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> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:33:25 +0200 Message-Id: <1218220405.29098.9.camel@lappy.programming.kicks-ass.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 746 Lines: 19 On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 11:30 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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.. Hehe, we could do the boring conventional thing and stick it in -mm and -next and such :-) -- 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/