Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:06:08 +0100 | From | Thibaut VARENE <> | Subject | [PATCH] make elv_register() output atomic |
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Hi,
Booting 2.6.21-rc3-g45592145 I noticed the following on one of my machines in the bootlog:
io scheduler noop registered<6>Time: jiffies clocksource has been installed.
io scheduler deadline registered (default)
Looking at block/elevator.c, it appears that elv_register() uses two consecutive printks in a non-atomic way, leading to the above glitch. The attached trivial patch fixes this issue, by using a single printk.
HTH
T-Bone
PS: please CC-me in replies.
Signed-off-by: Thibaut VARENE <varenet@parisc-linux.org>
-- Thibaut VARENE http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/
diff --git a/block/elevator.c b/block/elevator.c index 25f6ef2..96a00c8 100644 --- a/block/elevator.c +++ b/block/elevator.c @@ -964,17 +964,18 @@ void elv_unregister_queue(struct request_queue *q) int elv_register(struct elevator_type *e) { + char *def = ""; spin_lock_irq(&elv_list_lock); BUG_ON(elevator_find(e->elevator_name)); list_add_tail(&e->list, &elv_list); spin_unlock_irq(&elv_list_lock); - printk(KERN_INFO "io scheduler %s registered", e->elevator_name); if (!strcmp(e->elevator_name, chosen_elevator) || (!*chosen_elevator && !strcmp(e->elevator_name, CONFIG_DEFAULT_IOSCHED))) - printk(" (default)"); - printk("\n"); + def = " (default)"; + + printk(KERN_INFO "io scheduler %s registered%s\n", e->elevator_name, def); return 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(elv_register); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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