Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Feb 2001 22:38:35 +1100 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Major Clock Drift |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > > > queued_writes=1; > > > return; > > > } > > > } > > > > Unfortunately, that means that if machine crashes in interrupt, it may > > "loose" printk message. That is considered bad (tm). > > The alternative is that the machine clock slides continually and the machine > is unusable. This is considered even worse by most people
Neither. I was going to dust off my enhanced "bust_spinlocks" patch which sets a little flag when we're doing an oops, BUG(), panic() or die(). If the flag is set, printk() just punches through the lock. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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