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SubjectRe: [PATCH] printk: robustify printk


On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 13:32 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>
> > How about if I instead add comments warning people not to put printk()
> > in the relevant RCU-implementation code? That way I can be not only lazy,
> > but cowardly as well! ;-)
>
> Well, it does spoil the party a little, we are now trading one deadlock
> for another :-/

Yeah, but only Paul and his clones would need printks in preempt RCU.

The rest of us mortals now have the rest of the kernel to play with.

-- Steve



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