From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Calvin Owens <calvinowens@fb.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv7 4/8] printk: always use deferred printk when flush printk_safe lines
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 16:52:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170202155252.GG23754@pathway.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170202153753.GF23754@pathway.suse.cz>
On Thu 2017-02-02 16:37:53, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Thu 2017-02-02 15:05:38, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > On (02/01/17 11:06), Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > [..]
> > > > static void printk_safe_flush_line(const char *text, int len)
> > > > {
> > > > /*
> > > > - * The buffers are flushed in NMI only on panic. The messages must
> > > > - * go only into the ring buffer at this stage. Consoles will get
> > > > - * explicitly called later when a crashdump is not generated.
> > > > + * Avoid any console drivers calls from here, because we may be
> > > > + * in NMI or printk_safe context (when in panic). The messages
> > > > + * must go only into the ring buffer at this stage. Consoles will
> > > > + * get explicitly called later when a crashdump is not generated.
> > > > */
> > > > - if (in_nmi())
> > > > - printk_deferred("%.*s", len, text);
> > > > - else
> > > > - printk("%.*s", len, text);
> > > > + printk_deferred("%.*s", len, text);
> > > > }
> > >
> > > The helper function was there because of the if statement. Just nuke
> > > this function and call printk_deferred() directly. You can move the
> > > comment to the caller.
> >
> > indeed. thanks.
> >
> > Petr, how would you prefer to handle this?
>
> I am still learning how to manage the patches in the printk.git tree.
>
> I would like to add Steven's Reviewed-by tags, links to the mails,
> and list of CC-ed people. IMHO, the only way is to rebase the for-4.11
> and for-next branches. Then I could do the above suggested change during
> the rebase.
Alternatively you could send this other solution as a replay to this
thread. Then we could comment, add reviewed tags. And I could use
the new approved variant during the rebase.
This is probably better approach for non-oneliner changes.
> Any other solutions are welcome. I will wait with the rebase at least
> until Monday. We are discussing the lockdep in the 6th patch anyway.
Best Regards,
Petr
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-02 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-27 14:16 [PATCHv7 0/8] printk: use printk_safe to handle printk() recursive calls Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-12-27 14:16 ` [PATCHv7 1/8] printk: use vprintk_func in vprintk() Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-12-27 14:16 ` [PATCHv7 2/8] printk: rename nmi.c and exported api Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-01-04 13:07 ` Petr Mladek
2017-02-01 15:48 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-02-01 15:50 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-02-23 7:50 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-02-23 8:02 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-23 9:23 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-12-27 14:16 ` [PATCHv7 3/8] printk: introduce per-cpu safe_print seq buffer Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-01-04 13:31 ` Petr Mladek
2017-01-05 1:01 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-01 15:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-12-27 14:16 ` [PATCHv7 4/8] printk: always use deferred printk when flush printk_safe lines Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-01 16:06 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-02-02 6:05 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-02 15:37 ` Petr Mladek
2017-02-02 15:52 ` Petr Mladek [this message]
2017-02-03 2:04 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-03 11:18 ` Petr Mladek
2017-02-06 1:48 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-06 2:08 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-06 12:16 ` Petr Mladek
2017-02-06 13:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-02-06 16:42 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-06 16:55 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-12-27 14:16 ` [PATCHv7 5/8] printk: report lost messages in printk safe/nmi contexts Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-01-04 14:46 ` Petr Mladek
2017-01-05 1:01 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-01 16:37 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-02-02 2:02 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-02 14:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-02-02 16:13 ` Petr Mladek
2017-02-03 1:57 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-03 3:13 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-12-27 14:16 ` [PATCHv7 6/8] printk: use printk_safe buffers in printk Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-01-31 17:27 ` Ross Zwisler
2017-02-01 9:06 ` Jan Kara
2017-02-01 9:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-02-01 15:39 ` Petr Mladek
2017-02-01 16:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-02-01 16:41 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-02-02 2:11 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-02 9:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-02-02 10:03 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-02 15:20 ` Petr Mladek
2017-02-03 2:45 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-02 1:59 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-01 17:04 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-02-02 2:13 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-12-27 14:16 ` [PATCHv7 7/8] printk: remove zap_locks() function Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-12-27 14:16 ` [PATCHv7 8/8] printk: convert the rest to printk-safe Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-01-04 16:28 ` Petr Mladek
2017-01-05 1:00 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-01-05 16:58 ` [PATCHv7 0/8] printk: use printk_safe to handle printk() recursive calls Petr Mladek
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