Re: [PATCH] printk: robustify printk

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Aug 08 2008 - 14:31:54 EST




On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> Avoid deadlocks against rq->lock and xtime_lock by using RCU to defer
> the klogd wakeup.

Ok, I can't see anything wrong with this from the patch. I do hate that
deadlock, so I think I'll apply it. But I'll try to hold off for a while
in case somebody has any last-minute comments..

Linus
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