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From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH arm: initial TI-Nspire support]
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 23:29:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201304082329.08105.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.wu8ng3wyu7prd4@fabians-laptop.fritz.box>

On Monday 08 April 2013, Fabian Vogt wrote:
> Yes, I've heard that before, but than it would work/not work independently
> of NO_HZ. Can printk's be executet within console_lock() ..  
> console_unlock() blocks?

I think it's legal to call printk in that case, but the message will
not be printed until you reach the console_unlock()

> If not, it could be fb_notifier_call_chain, too, but that wouldn't be  
> likely at all.
> I also tried spinlock/mutex debugging and soft lockup detection,
> but neither of them outputs anything.

Unfortunately, lockdep does not help with console_lock, since that
is a weird semaphore variant, not a standard mutex or spinlock.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-08 21:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-04  9:01 [RFC PATCH arm: initial TI-Nspire support] Daniel Tang
2013-04-04 11:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-04-06  0:26   ` Daniel Tang
2013-04-06 11:51     ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-04-06 12:00       ` Daniel Tang
2013-04-06 13:24         ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-04-07  0:06           ` Daniel Tang
2013-04-07  3:56             ` Daniel Tang
2013-04-07 21:23               ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-04-08 11:33                 ` Daniel Tang
2013-04-08 19:16                   ` Fabian Vogt
2013-04-08 19:38                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-04-08 20:06                       ` Fabian Vogt
2013-04-08 21:29                         ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2013-04-09  5:59                     ` Daniel Tang
2013-04-09 11:23                 ` Linus Walleij
2013-04-09 12:01                   ` Pawel Moll
2013-04-09 12:05                     ` Linus Walleij
2013-04-09 13:51                     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-04-07 14:32             ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-04-09 11:14 ` Linus Walleij
2013-04-09 11:39   ` Daniel Tang
2013-04-09 11:58     ` Linus Walleij

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