Re: [RFC][PATCHv6 00/12] printk: introduce printing kernel thread

Tejun Heo
2018-01-09T22:17:58Z

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 07:08:30AM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > * Netconsole tries to send out OOM messages and tries memory
> > allocation which fails which then prints allocation failed messages.
> > Because this happens while already printing, it just queues the
> > messages to the buffer. This repeats.
>
> What? Does netconsole need to allocate memory when sending? I assume it does not.

A lot of network drivers do, unfortunatley.

Thanks.

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tejun