Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes

Steven Rostedt
2018-01-10T16:50:36Z

On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 14:24:17 +0100
Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> wrote:

> From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Please remove the above From:, it will overwrite the one below which I
would prefer to have.

Thanks!

-- Steve

>
> From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
>
> This patch implements what I discussed in Kernel Summit. I added
> lockdep annotation (hopefully correctly), and it hasn't had any splats
> (since I fixed some bugs in the first iterations). It did catch
> problems when I had the owner covering too much. But now that the owner
> is only set when actively calling the consoles, lockdep has stayed
> quiet.