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From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 3/3] printk: make printk.synchronous param rw
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 08:56:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160423065633.GA6771@quack2.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1461333180-2897-4-git-send-email-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>

On Fri 22-04-16 22:53:00, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> Change `synchronous' printk param to be RW, so user space
> can change printk mode back and forth to/from sync mode
> (which is considered to be more reliable).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>

The patch looks good to me. One suggestion below:

> @@ -1785,7 +1782,7 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk_emit(int facility, int level,
>  		 * operate in sync mode once panic() occurred.
>  		 */
>  		if (console_loglevel != CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_MOTORMOUTH &&
> -				printk_kthread) {
> +				!printk_sync && printk_kthread) {
>  			/* Offload printing to a schedulable context. */
>  			printk_kthread_need_flush_console = true;
>  			wake_up_process(printk_kthread);

It would seem more future-proof to hide '!printk_sync && printk_kthread'
into a wrapper function as it is somewhat subtle detail that printk_kthread
needn't exist while !printk_sync and I can imagine someone forgetting to
check that in the future. Something like 'can_print_async()'? But I don't
feel too strongly about that so feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

regardless whether you change this or not.

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-23  6:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-22 13:52 [PATCH v12 0/3] printk: Make printk() completely async Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-04-22 13:52 ` [PATCH v12 1/3] " Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-04-26 14:13   ` Petr Mladek
2016-04-22 13:52 ` [PATCH v12 2/3] printk: Make wake_up_klogd_work_func() async Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-04-22 13:53 ` [PATCH v12 3/3] printk: make printk.synchronous param rw Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-04-23  6:56   ` Jan Kara [this message]
2016-04-23  8:26     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-04-23 15:01   ` [PATCH] " Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-04-26 14:15     ` Petr Mladek
2016-04-27  1:09       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-05-13 13:18 [PATCH v12 0/3] printk: Make printk() completely async Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-05-13 13:18 ` [PATCH v12 3/3] printk: make printk.synchronous param rw Sergey Senozhatsky

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