Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757274Ab1FFSPi (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2011 14:15:38 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:54806 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755932Ab1FFSPg (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2011 14:15:36 -0400 Subject: Re: [debug patch] printk: Add a printk killswitch to robustify NMI watchdog messages From: Peter Zijlstra To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Arne Jansen , Linus Torvalds , mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, efault@gmx.de, npiggin@kernel.dk, akpm@linux-foundation.org, frank.rowand@am.sony.com, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20110606180733.GA20123@elte.hu> References: <1307372989.2322.136.camel@twins> <1307375227.2322.161.camel@twins> <20110606155236.GA7374@elte.hu> <1307376039.2322.164.camel@twins> <20110606160810.GA16636@elte.hu> <1307376771.2322.168.camel@twins> <20110606161749.GA22157@elte.hu> <1307378649.2322.198.camel@twins> <20110606171153.GE2391@elte.hu> <4DED1519.2020803@die-jansens.de> <20110606180733.GA20123@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:19:09 +0200 Message-ID: <1307384349.2497.732.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 748 Lines: 19 On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 20:07 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > - The first one that minimally removes the lockdep_off()/on() dance > and fixes the regression: the patch that i sent earlier today. > I *think* that should fix the crash. > > 3.0 material. I think the lock_is_held() fix is the urgent one, all the others are make printk() suck less patches, ie. not so very important. Without that lock_is_held() thing all lockdep_off() sites, inc ntfs will still be able to trigger this problem. -- 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/