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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
To: pierre kuo <vichy.kuo@gmail.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC V2] printk: add warning while drop partial text in msg
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 10:07:18 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171018010718.GA775@jagdpanzerIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOVJa8EGdM6ezt25BNN6=+6_wnWD3QyN8uhBewPhJ5i8chyAOA@mail.gmail.com>

On (10/18/17 01:10), pierre kuo wrote:
[..]
> > Well, it might get quite complicated, see printk_safe_flush_buffer().
> 
> BTW,  after checking printk_safe_flush_buffer() and related functions,
> we have one question:
> a) Why in printk_safe_log_store(), we need to use  atomic_xxxx operation in it?

because IRQ flush work iterates all CPUs and modifies CPUs' buffer state,
and this easily can race with printk_safe() or printk_nmi() on some of the
CPUs.

	-ss

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-18  1:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-30 13:37 [RFC V2] printk: add warning while drop partial text in msg pierre Kuo
2017-08-01  2:43 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-10 16:26   ` pierre kuo
2017-08-10 16:55     ` pierre kuo
2017-08-16  9:21       ` Petr Mladek
2017-08-17  1:05       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-09-12  6:07         ` pierre kuo
2017-09-18  9:39           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-09-18 10:00             ` Joe Perches
2017-09-18 10:08               ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-09-27 13:59             ` pierre kuo
2017-09-30  3:14               ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-10-04 13:28               ` Petr Mladek
2017-10-17 17:10                 ` pierre kuo
2017-10-18  1:07                   ` Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]
2017-10-04 13:17           ` Petr Mladek
2017-10-17 17:07             ` pierre kuo

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