Re: [PATCH 1/7] printk: Hand over printing to console if printing too long

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Tue Jan 05 2016 - 20:40:53 EST


Hello,

On (01/05/16 15:37), Jan Kara wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed 23-12-15 10:54:49, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > slowly looking through the patches.
>
> Back from Christmas vacation...
>
> > How about setting 'sync_print' to 'true' in...
> > bust_spinlocks() /* only set to true */
> > or
> > console_verbose() /* um... may be... */
> > or
> > having a separate one-liner for that
> >
> > void console_panic_mode(void)
> > {
> > sync_print = true;
> > }
> >
> > and call it early in panic(), before we send out IPI_STOP.
>
> I like using console_verbose() for setting sync_print to true. That will
> likely be more reliable than using oops in progress. After all
> console_verbose() is used like console_panic_mode() anyway and in quite a
> few places so it is a reasonable match.

Agree, only arch/microblaze/kernel/setup.c and arch/nios2/kernel/setup.c
do console_verbose() early in setup_arch(), the rest seems to be what I
was thinking of.

-ss
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