[PATCH 4/4] kdb: Switch to nolock variants of kmsg_dump functions

From: Anton Vorontsov
Date: Fri Jul 20 2012 - 20:30:27 EST


The locked variants are prone to deadlocks (suppose we got to the
debugger w/ the logbuf lock held), so let's switch to nolock
variants.

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c
index df17c93..1f91413 100644
--- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c
+++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c
@@ -2072,8 +2072,8 @@ static int kdb_dmesg(int argc, const char **argv)
kdb_set(2, setargs);
}

- kmsg_dump_rewind(&dumper);
- while (kmsg_dump_get_line(&dumper, 1, NULL, 0, NULL))
+ kmsg_dump_rewind_nolock(&dumper);
+ while (kmsg_dump_get_line_nolock(&dumper, 1, NULL, 0, NULL))
n++;

if (lines < 0) {
@@ -2105,8 +2105,8 @@ static int kdb_dmesg(int argc, const char **argv)
if (skip >= n || skip < 0)
return 0;

- kmsg_dump_rewind(&dumper);
- while (kmsg_dump_get_line(&dumper, 1, buf, sizeof(buf), &len)) {
+ kmsg_dump_rewind_nolock(&dumper);
+ while (kmsg_dump_get_line_nolock(&dumper, 1, buf, sizeof(buf), &len)) {
if (skip) {
skip--;
continue;
--
1.7.10.4
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