Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Feb 2020 15:53:34 -0500 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: Regression in v4.19.106 breaking waking up of readers of /proc/kmsg and /dev/kmsg |
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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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