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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, efault@gmx.de,
	Arne Jansen <lists@die-jansens.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] printk: Release console_sem after logbuf_lock
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:33:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110610093354.GH27280@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110609170804.1b76e853.akpm@linux-foundation.org>


* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> > Some notes:
> 
> Stupid thing doesn't explain the magical locking though :( I'm 
> 99.9% sure that putting an up() inside a spinlock_irq()ed region 
> was deliberate.

My guess would be it's done so that pending irqs that have queued up 
during our current printk-ing activities do not hit us with the 
console still locked.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-10  9:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-09 13:06 [PATCH 0/3] printk: Remove lockdep_off() and wakeups Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-09 13:06 ` [PATCH 1/3] printk: Release console_sem after logbuf_lock Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-09 20:06   ` Andrew Morton
2011-06-09 20:27     ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-09 20:54       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-09 21:07         ` Andrew Morton
2011-06-09 23:57           ` Hugh Dickins
2011-06-10  0:08             ` Andrew Morton
2011-06-10  9:33               ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2011-06-10  9:40                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-10  9:42                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-10 11:28             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-10 12:30               ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-10 12:34                 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-10 12:41                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-10 12:42                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-23 19:03                 ` Pavel Machek
2011-06-10  9:30         ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-10 10:15   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-09 13:06 ` [PATCH 2/3] printk, lockdep: Remove lockdep_off() usage Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-10 13:23   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-09 13:06 ` [PATCH 3/3] printk: Avoid all wakeups from printk Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-09 13:32   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-09 13:40     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-09 13:55       ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-09 14:06         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-09 14:19           ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-09 14:23             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-09 15:47               ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-09 15:51                 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-09 16:25                   ` Peter Zijlstra

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