Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/6] Use printk_safe context for TTY and UART port locks

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Jun 19 2018 - 04:08:51 EST


On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 02:38:18PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Given printk nowdays is already somewhat unreliable with all the perf
> related changes,

printk is a steaming pile of @#$#@, unreliable doesn't even begin to
cover it.

> and we have other good debug tools

What other good debug tools do you have? The only thing I have that
actually works is earlyser/8250_early -- and I route everything printk
into that.