Re: [PATCH printk v1 03/13] printk: use percpu flag instead of cpu_online()

From: Jason A. Donenfeld
Date: Sat Mar 05 2022 - 12:05:14 EST


Hi Petr,

On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 04:56:55PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:

> Just for record, the right commit ID in the mainline is
> 1b710b1b10eff9d466. It used printk_deferred() in _warn_unseeded_randomness():
>
> --- a/drivers/char/random.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/random.c
> @@ -1687,8 +1687,9 @@ static void _warn_unseeded_randomness(const char *func_name, void *caller,
> print_once = true;
> #endif
> if (__ratelimit(&unseeded_warning))
> - pr_notice("random: %s called from %pS with crng_init=%d\n",
> - func_name, caller, crng_init);
> + printk_deferred(KERN_NOTICE "random: %s called from %pS "
> + "with crng_init=%d\n", func_name, caller,
> + crng_init);
> }

Are we able to revert this yet? Or is it still required because of
locking issues? Would gladly take a patch to revert that if the
non-deferred function is fine for 5.18.

Jason