Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] printk: robustify printk | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:33:25 +0200 |
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On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 11:30 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > > Avoid deadlocks against rq->lock and xtime_lock by using RCU to defer > > the klogd wakeup. > > Ok, I can't see anything wrong with this from the patch. I do hate that > deadlock, so I think I'll apply it. But I'll try to hold off for a while > in case somebody has any last-minute comments..
Hehe, we could do the boring conventional thing and stick it in -mm and -next and such :-)
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