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SubjectRe: Regression in v4.19.106 breaking waking up of readers of /proc/kmsg and /dev/kmsg
On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 02:02:17PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
>
> So, I would still prefer to _revert_ the commit 15341b1dd409749f
> ("char/random: silence a lockdep splat with printk()"). It calmed
> down lockdep report. The real life danger is dubious. The warning
> is printed early when the system is running on single CPU where
> it could not race.

I'm wondering now if we should revert this commit before 5.6 comes out
(it landed in 5.6-rc1). "Is much less likely to happen given the
other random initialization patches" is not the same as "guaranteed
not to happen".

What do folks think?

- Ted

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