Re: [PATCH] printk: avoid livelock if another CPU printks continuously

From: Denys Vlasenko
Date: Tue Feb 09 2016 - 11:07:48 EST


On 02/09/2016 04:50 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> One thing is to find the spamming code and fix that.

We can't rely that there won't be never-ending concurrent printks,
right? For one, in many setups user can cause printk flood.

I think we must ensure that printk does not livelock.