From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Lech Perczak <l.perczak@camlintechnologies.com>,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] printk: queue wake_up_klogd irq_work only if per-CPU areas are ready
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 19:53:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200305185348.GB2141048@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200305013014.GA174444@google.com>
On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 10:30:14AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (20/03/04 16:21), Petr Mladek wrote:
> [..]
> > > Fix printk_deferred() and do not queue per-CPU irq_work
> > > before per-CPU areas are initialized.
> > >
> > > [0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/aa0732c6-5c4e-8a8b-a1c1-75ebe3dca05b@camlintechnologies.com/
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
> > > Reported-by: Lech Perczak <l.perczak@camlintechnologies.com>
> > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > > Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
> > > Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
>
> Thanks!
>
> > Now, the question is whether to hurry this fix into 5.6 or if
> > it could wait for 5.7.
> >
> > I think that it could wait because 5.6 is not affected by
> > the particular printk_deferred(). This patch fixes a long-term
> > generic problem. But I am open for other opinions.
>
> Good question. My 5 cents, I would _probably_ push it now. Not
> because it fixes any known issues on 5.6, but because we have
> a number of LTS kernel (4.19, 4.14, 4.9, 4.4, 3.16) that can be
> affected should 1b710b1b10eff9d4 be backported to those kernels.
It was backported there, and now has been reverted. So no big rush from
what I can tell.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-05 18:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-03 11:30 [PATCHv2] printk: queue wake_up_klogd irq_work only if per-CPU areas are ready Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-03-04 15:21 ` Petr Mladek
2020-03-05 1:30 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-03-05 18:53 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2020-04-09 19:25 ` Simon Kirby
2020-04-10 3:07 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-04-10 23:21 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-04-01 19:34 ` Jann Horn
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