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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: deadlock caused by printk
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:50:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1301064627.2250.215.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimw1+6DrYxxzkw7yh-t4W8rM55qcVd1nsQrAYT-@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 22:30 +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> 
> But seems ftrace can't dump out the messages if system hangs,

True.

>  so could
> we introduce a smart and simple "printk" which can be used in any
> contexts? 

I think you could use early_printk() for that, it doesn't bother with
all the syslog muck.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-25 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-25 12:15 deadlock caused by printk Ming Lei
2011-03-25 12:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-25 12:26   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-25 14:30     ` Ming Lei
2011-03-25 14:50       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-03-25 18:41         ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-25 18:40     ` Steven Rostedt

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