From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: printk() vs tty_io
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:43:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1323855797.28489.22.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111214065910.GA25775@elte.hu>
On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 07:59 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> btw., would be nice to also somehow realeasify those debug hacks
> to preserve them for eternity - doing all lockdep output as
> earlyprintk while keeping printks working is a great way to
> debug printk() itself.
>
> Those printk lockups also took a *lot* of time for me to bisect.
Yeah, they're horrible.. took me long enough to reproduce, and even now
I know how its not easy.
Anyway, I just posted the two patches that make lockdep do
early_printk(), they're not too horrid. I still need to look at making
dump_stack() play nice as well, but so far I've managed to grok bits
from the held lock output only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-14 9:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-13 19:33 printk() vs tty_io Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-13 23:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-14 9:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-14 10:43 ` Alan Cox
2011-12-14 10:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-14 14:05 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-12-14 14:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-14 15:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-15 9:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-15 10:32 ` Alan Cox
2011-12-15 10:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-15 17:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-15 18:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-15 21:22 ` Alan Cox
2011-12-16 13:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-15 19:02 ` Greg KH
2011-12-14 6:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-14 9:40 ` [PATCH] arch, early_printk: Consolidate early_printk() implementations Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-14 9:41 ` [PATCH] lockdep: Enable earlyprintk output Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-14 9:43 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-12-14 9:46 ` printk() vs tty_io Ingo Molnar
2011-12-21 12:03 ` Stijn Devriendt
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