Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757335Ab2HUMQL (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:16:11 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:48245 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757264Ab2HUMQG convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:16:06 -0400 Message-ID: <1345551345.23018.107.camel@twins> Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbcon: fix race condition between console lock and cursor timer From: Peter Zijlstra To: Alan Cox Cc: Dave Airlie , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.sf.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus , Randy Dunlap , Josh Boyer Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:15:45 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20120821101505.61c0221a@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> References: <1345531207-24926-1-git-send-email-airlied@redhat.com> <20120821101505.61c0221a@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2- Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 566 Lines: 13 On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 10:15 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > So after much tracing with direct netconsole writes (printks > > under console_lock not so useful), I think I found the race. > > Direct netconsole write would be a useful patch to have mainline I think > 8) could we make that use the earlyprintk infrastructure? -- 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/