Re: [PATCH] printk: robustify printk

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 11:30 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 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..

Hehe, we could do the boring conventional thing and stick it in -mm and
-next and such :-)

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