Re: [patch RFC 07/29] printk: Convert console list walks for readers to list lock

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Wed Sep 14 2022 - 08:46:57 EST


On (22/09/11 00:27), Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Facilities which expose console information to sysfs or procfs can use the
> new list protection to keep the list stable. No need to hold console lock.

Yeah I guess it makes sense to take the list lock in console stop/start then.
(I wonder if it'll be better to do it in this patch.)

> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx>