From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756137AbaDWJap (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2014 05:30:45 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:57385 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752642AbaDWJal (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2014 05:30:41 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:30:37 +0200 From: Jan Kara To: Andrew Morton Cc: Jan Kara , One Thousand Gnomes , LKML , pmladek@suse.cz, Frederic Weisbecker , Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] printk: Add config option for disabling printk offloading Message-ID: <20140423093037.GA17824@quack.suse.cz> References: <1395770101-24534-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <1395770101-24534-9-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <20140326172332.5f1e1bfb@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> <20140326192815.GC18118@quack.suse.cz> <20140418115438.1e65e07af17e3ba6d7c554db@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140418115438.1e65e07af17e3ba6d7c554db@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri 18-04-14 11:54:38, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 20:28:15 +0100 Jan Kara wrote: > > > > All the afflicted consoles are serial, all go via the uart layer as far > > > as I can see. > > > > > > The uart layer has a queue mechanism that could be used > > I'm sorry, I don't follow here - what can the uart queueing be used for? > > Alan, I'm desperate to avoid adding all this complexity to core printk > code to solve such a rare problem. It'd be great if you could flesh out > any alternative ideas please. OK, Andrew, can you please queue at least patches 1-4 in the series? Noone is objecting to those, they make sense on their own, and it makes life somewhat simpler for me. Thanks! Honza -- Jan Kara SUSE Labs, CR