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From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Sergey Senozhatsky" <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
	"Lech Perczak" <l.perczak@camlintechnologies.com>,
	"Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"Krzysztof Drobiński" <k.drobinski@camlintechnologies.com>,
	"Pawel Lenkow" <p.lenkow@camlintechnologies.com>,
	"John Ogness" <john.ogness@linutronix.de>,
	"Tejun Heo" <tj@kernel.org>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Regression in v4.19.106 breaking waking up of readers of /proc/kmsg and /dev/kmsg
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 15:53:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200228205334.GF101220@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200228130217.rj6qge2en26bdp7b@pathway.suse.cz>

On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 02:02:17PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
> 
> So, I would still prefer to _revert_ the commit 15341b1dd409749f
> ("char/random: silence a lockdep splat with printk()"). It calmed
> down lockdep report. The real life danger is dubious. The warning
> is printed early when the system is running on single CPU where
> it could not race.

I'm wondering now if we should revert this commit before 5.6 comes out
(it landed in 5.6-rc1).  "Is much less likely to happen given the
other random initialization patches" is not the same as "guaranteed
not to happen".

What do folks think?

						- Ted

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-28 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-27 11:09 Regression in v4.19.106 breaking waking up of readers of /proc/kmsg and /dev/kmsg Lech Perczak
2020-02-27 12:36 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-02-27 12:39   ` Lech Perczak
2020-02-27 14:08     ` Lech Perczak
2020-02-28  3:13       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-02-28  9:11         ` John Ogness
2020-02-28 12:02           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-02-28 10:04         ` Petr Mladek
2020-02-28 10:58           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-02-28 11:32             ` Petr Mladek
2020-02-28 11:39               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-02-28 13:02               ` Petr Mladek
2020-02-28 13:41                 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-02-28 20:53                 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
2020-02-29  3:32                   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-02-29  4:08                     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-02-29 23:47                     ` Steven Rostedt
2020-03-01  5:22                       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-03-02  9:49                         ` Petr Mladek
2020-03-02  9:59                           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-02-28 11:49           ` Sergey Senozhatsky

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