Re: [PATCH 0/4 v6] Avoid softlockups in console_unlock()

[Jiri Kosina]

On Thu, 22 Aug 2013, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Years of hard experience have taught me: don't muck with printk.  It
> needs to be robust, simple and to have minimum dependency on both the
> calling environment and on correctly functioning kernel components. 
> printk and NMI are the harshest environments we have to deal with.

NMI is harsh due to its design.

printk() is harsh because of the way we have implemented it. So we'd 
better work on fixing it, methinks.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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