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DateTue, 17 Jun 2003 09:09:57 +0200
FromAndi Kleen <>
SubjectRe: patch for common networking error messages
> Actually it already does, to cover the case where an interrupt handler calls
> printk while process-context code is performing a printk.

I don't think it'll work. Both printk and release_console_sem take the logbuf_lock,
which will deadlock if the same CPU already holds it.

It would need to use the usual linux recursive lock hack.

-Andi

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