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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
	Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>, Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: printk's threaded legacy console + fbcon => schedule where it should not
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:08:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260120110845.2922a91a@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260114145955.d924Z-zu@linutronix.de>

On Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:59:55 +0100
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> wrote:

> @@ -3362,22 +3362,6 @@ void console_unlock(void)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(console_unlock);
>  
> -/**
> - * console_conditional_schedule - yield the CPU if required

Egad! That goes all the way back to 2002:

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?id=a880f45a48be2956d2c78a839c472287d54435c1

> - *
> - * If the console code is currently allowed to sleep, and
> - * if this CPU should yield the CPU to another task, do
> - * so here.
> - *
> - * Must be called within console_lock();.
> - */
> -void __sched console_conditional_schedule(void)
> -{
> -	if (console_may_schedule)
> -		cond_resched();
> -}
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(console_conditional_schedule);

I'm assuming this likely isn't needed anymore. I don't know of any reason
it needs to stay.

Should we just remove it and see what breaks?

-- Steve



> -
>  void console_unblank(void)
>  {
>  	bool found_unblank = false;

  reply	other threads:[~2026-01-20 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-14 14:59 printk's threaded legacy console + fbcon => schedule where it should not Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-01-20 16:08 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2026-01-20 17:06   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-01-21 13:43   ` Petr Mladek
2026-01-21 13:57     ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-01-21 16:08       ` Petr Mladek

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