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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v4 0/2] printk: Make printk() completely async
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 21:36:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160423193608.GA15755@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1457964820-4642-1-git-send-email-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>

On Mon 2016-03-14 23:13:38, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  RFC
> 
>  The patch set is based on slightly updated Jan Kara's patches.
> 
> This patch set makes printk() completely asynchronous: new messages
> are getting upended to the kernel printk buffer, but instead of 'direct'
> printing the actual print job is performed by a dedicated kthread.
> This has the advantage that printing always happens from a schedulable
> context and thus we don't lockup any particular CPU or even
> interrupts.

And that means that printk() will become mostly useless for debugging,
right?
									Pavel


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-23 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-14 14:13 [RFC][PATCH v4 0/2] printk: Make printk() completely async Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-03-14 14:13 ` [RFC][PATCH v4 1/2] " Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-03-15 10:03   ` Jan Kara
2016-03-15 14:07     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-03-16  5:39       ` Byungchul Park
2016-03-16  6:58         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-03-16  7:30           ` Byungchul Park
2016-03-16  7:56             ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-03-16 10:34               ` Byungchul Park
2016-03-17  0:34                 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-03-18  5:49                   ` Byungchul Park
2016-03-18  7:11                     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-03-18  8:23                       ` byungchul.park
2016-03-16  7:00         ` Byungchul Park
2016-03-16  7:07           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-03-15 15:58   ` Petr Mladek
2016-03-16  2:01     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-03-16  2:10       ` Byungchul Park
2016-03-16  2:31         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-03-14 14:13 ` [RFC][PATCH v4 2/2] printk: Skip messages on oops Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-03-17 10:56   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-04-23 19:36 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2016-04-24  5:03   ` [RFC][PATCH v4 0/2] printk: Make printk() completely async Sergey Senozhatsky

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