Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/7] printk: use alternative printk buffers

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Tue Oct 04 2016 - 21:37:07 EST


On (10/04/16 14:22), Petr Mladek wrote:
[..]
> if (retry && console_trylock())
> goto again;
>
> with a safe variant, something like
>
> if (retry) {
> local_irq_save(flags);
> alt_printk_enter();
> lock_failed = console_trylock();
> alt_printk_exit();
> local_irq_restore(flags);
>
> if (!lock_failed)
> goto again;
> }
>
> Or do I miss anything?

nope, you don't. that's close to what I do in v3.

> I am going to look at the second version of the patchset.

thanks a lot for your review!

I'll refresh the patch set a bit later this week. I think it's more
or less in shape now.... well, still under the old name: alt_printk.

-ss