On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 17:20 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 01:51:18 +0100 > Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > printk: Wake up klogd using irq_work > > That seems reasonable. > > I'm wondering if we can now remove the printk_sched() special-case. > iirc, that was needed because wake_up(klogd) would deadlock when called > from sched internals. But now that wakeup is punted to the timer tick, > perhaps this is now unnecessary? > > (Maybe there were other problems, but the 3ccf3e8306 is poor, and its > author is unavailable. There's a lesson there!)
I think we can nuke it with the printk irq work. I'll start looking into that. Thanks! -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/