Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 May 2004 17:19:39 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: overlaping printk |
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* Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> wrote:
> One alternative way would be to use locks with timeouts for these two > locks (e.g. checking the TSC on x86, since the timer interrupt may not > be running anymore) and only break the lock when the wait time is too > long. > > Of course serial lines can be quite slow so even that may not help > always (for unknown reasons far too many people use 9600 baud for > their serial line)
another solution would be to break the lock only once during the kernel's lifetime. The system is messed up anyway if it needs multiple lock breaks to get an oops out to the console. We dont care about followup oopses - the first oops is that matters.
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