On Monday 08 April 2013, Fabian Vogt wrote: > Yes, I've heard that before, but than it would work/not work independently > of NO_HZ. Can printk's be executet within console_lock() .. > console_unlock() blocks?
I think it's legal to call printk in that case, but the message will not be printed until you reach the console_unlock() > If not, it could be fb_notifier_call_chain, too, but that wouldn't be > likely at all. > I also tried spinlock/mutex debugging and soft lockup detection, > but neither of them outputs anything. Unfortunately, lockdep does not help with console_lock, since that is a weird semaphore variant, not a standard mutex or spinlock. Arnd -- 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/