Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Apr 1998 15:51:32 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: printk not thread safe, buf is static |
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Hi!
> The buffer used by printk() is static so, for example, if while printk() > is running an interrupt will happen and its interrupt handler will use > printk() too, the first printk() will not run as expected. Maybe this can > happen also in a SMP machine (in 2.1.x kernel of course).
I think that that is known limitation. What worse can happen? Corrupted messages? Solve it when it happens.
Pavel
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