RE: [GIT PULL] printk for 5.20

From: David Laight
Date: Mon Aug 01 2022 - 11:45:30 EST


> - Completely disable printing on consoles with CONFIG_RT. They break
> RT guarantees. They are too slow to be called with raw spinlocks.
> They can't be called with normal spinlocks in an atomic context because
> RT spinlocks might sleep. It is going to get fixed by the kthreads and
> atomic consoles. In the meantime, the debugging of CONFIG_RT kernel
> will be possible only by the user space kernel log readers.

SYSV used to be like that if you were running syslogd.
Used to make debugging some issues completely impossible.

David

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