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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>,
	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 14:41:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110325184158.GE9313@home.goodmis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1301064627.2250.215.camel@laptop>

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 03:50:27PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 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.

Well, matters how the system hangs. Add in a nmi watchdog or other
watchdogs which can also trigger the ftrace_dump_on_oops.

> 
> >  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.
>

Heh, I should have read the thread before replying to the first post ;)

-- Steve


  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-25 18:42 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
2011-03-25 18:41         ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2011-03-25 18:40     ` Steven Rostedt

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