[RFC PATCH RT] netconsole: enable netconsole on PREEMPT_RT

[Daniel Bristot de Oliveira]

Dear RT Folks,

This patch enables the netconsole on PREEMPT_RT_FULL, netconsole
was disabled on commit:
cb7cb77 kconfig-disable-a-few-options-rt.patch

I tested the netconsole on three machines:

- Intel Core i5 (4 cpus) - Local network
- Intel Xeon (32 cpus)   - Remote network
- KVM VM (on a Core i7)  - Virtual network

On these machines I build the kernel 3.10.34-rt34 + netconsole
built as module. In order to execute some printks, I run a small
benchmark that runs as a module. To analyse the output I captured
the netconsole messages using Wireshark.

On all cases, the tests passed without any error:

- No error messages from the kernel
- No missed messages
- No out of order messages

I ran +1 hour tests on each machine. The test using the Xeon machine
ran by around 10 hours. On this test I received 317149 netconsole's
messages.

I also read the code and ran some traces (using the ftrace's
function_graph). In the traces that I read, the netconsole code never
broke the rt lock assumptions.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/net/Kconfig | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
index 096de88..3835321 100644
--- a/drivers/net/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig
@@ -164,7 +164,6 @@ config VXLAN
 
 config NETCONSOLE
 	tristate "Network console logging support"
-	depends on !PREEMPT_RT_FULL
 	---help---
 	If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this.
 	See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details.
-- 
1.9.0

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