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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, will.deacon@arm.com,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, pmladek@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: Don't discard earlier unprinted messages to make space
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 13:36:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1445517382.4113.57.camel@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151022121824.GB1768@quack.suse.cz>

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On Thu, 2015-10-22 at 14:18 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> 
> > 
> > What happened to it? And how do we fix it?
> 
> Hard to fix since you'd easily get RCU stalls and softlockup messages on
> systems with lots of CPUs and heavy printk traffic...

If we have to explicitly opt in to synchronous output, then such things
should be tolerable.

-- 
dwmw2


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  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-22 12:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-22 10:16 [PATCH] printk: Don't discard earlier unprinted messages to make space David Howells
2015-10-22 10:28 ` David Woodhouse
2015-10-22 12:18   ` Jan Kara
2015-10-22 12:36     ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2015-10-22 12:30 ` Petr Mladek
2015-10-22 13:19   ` David Howells
2015-10-22 13:23     ` David Woodhouse
2015-10-23  8:49     ` Petr Mladek

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