On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 06:37:17PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, 8 Nov 2013 00:21:51 +0100 > Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Offloading to a workqueue would be perhaps better, and writing to the serial > > console could then be done with interrupts enabled, preemptible context, > > etc... > > Oh God no ;-) Adding workqueue logic into printk just spells a > nightmare of much more complexity for a critical kernel infrastructure.
But yeah that's scary, that means workqueues itself can't printk that safely. So, you're right after all. -- 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/
