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DateSat, 26 Jan 2008 22:01:51 -0800
FromAndrew Morton <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] defer printks in irqs
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:23:03 -0800 Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com> wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > I suspect these features reduce the chance a crash messages makes it out
> > onto the console, but fail to spot any of the copious text mention this
> > critical issue.
> 
> Anything not in interrupts would not be deferred.
> The following code is meant to avoid deferring in oops as well.
> I'm not sure if that covers all crash cases or not.
> If you know of other cases, and ways to detect them, please advise.
> 

Yes, using oops_in_progress seems an appropriate fix for that.

I assume that another downside is that printk-from-interrupt will now get
jumbled up with an interrupted pritk-from-non-interrupt.

Please use checkpatch.
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