From: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH next v1 2/3] printk: remove safe buffers
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:10:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sg4e6lo5.fsf@jogness.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YGGmNu5ilDnSKH3g@alley>
On 2021-03-29, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> wrote:
> I wonder if some console drivers rely on the fact that the write()
> callback is called with interrupts disabled.
>
> IMHO, it would be a bug when any write() callback expects that
> callers disabled the interrupts.
Agreed.
> Do you plan to remove the console-spinning stuff after offloading
> consoles to the kthreads?
Yes. Although a similar concept will be introduced to allow the threaded
printers and the atomic consoles to compete.
> Will you call console write() callback with irq enabled from the
> kthread?
No. That defeats the fundamental purpose of this entire rework
excercise. ;-)
> Anyway, we should at least add a comment why the interrupts are
> disabled.
I decided to move the local_irq_save/restore inside the console-spinning
functions and added a comment for v2.
John Ogness
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-29 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-16 23:33 [PATCH next v1 0/3] printk: remove safe buffers John Ogness
2021-03-16 23:33 ` [PATCH next v1 1/3] printk: track/limit recursion John Ogness
2021-03-21 5:34 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-03-22 10:53 ` John Ogness
2021-03-22 11:13 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-03-22 15:07 ` Petr Mladek
2021-03-22 14:49 ` Petr Mladek
2021-03-23 21:32 ` John Ogness
2021-03-24 8:41 ` Petr Mladek
2021-03-16 23:33 ` [PATCH next v1 2/3] printk: remove safe buffers John Ogness
2021-03-21 5:26 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-03-22 11:16 ` John Ogness
2021-03-22 18:02 ` Petr Mladek
2021-03-22 21:58 ` John Ogness
2021-03-23 9:46 ` Petr Mladek
2021-03-23 10:47 ` Petr Mladek
2021-03-26 11:12 ` John Ogness
2021-03-29 10:04 ` Petr Mladek
2021-03-29 15:10 ` John Ogness [this message]
2021-03-29 15:13 ` John Ogness
2021-03-16 23:33 ` [PATCH next v1 3/3] printk: convert @syslog_lock to spin_lock John Ogness
2021-03-23 12:01 ` Petr Mladek
2021-03-26 11:23 ` John Ogness
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