Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759697Ab2J2VE0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:04:26 -0400 Received: from mail-la0-f46.google.com ([209.85.215.46]:38048 "EHLO mail-la0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751933Ab2J2VEZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:04:25 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1351521477.8467.78.camel@gandalf.local.home> References: <1351517296-9173-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> <1351517296-9173-10-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> <1351521477.8467.78.camel@gandalf.local.home> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:04:23 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 9/9] printk: Wake up klogd using irq_work From: Frederic Weisbecker To: Steven Rostedt Cc: LKML , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , Paul Gortmaker Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 987 Lines: 25 2012/10/29 Steven Rostedt : > On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 14:28 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: >> klogd is woken up asynchronously from the tick in order >> to do it safely. >> >> However if printk is called when the tick is stopped, the reader >> won't be woken up until the next interrupt, which might not fire >> before a while. As a result, the user may miss some message. > > Just a grammar nit (and goes for your previous patch as well). We say > "might not fire for a while." or you could say ".. for some time", but > not "before a while" ;-) Right! > > I wounder what the French translation of that is. You don't really want to know ;) But as you guess, this is quite close to something like "before a while" ;) -- 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/