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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
	Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Maninder Singh <maninder1.s@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19 regression fix] printk: For early boot messages check loglevel when flushing the buffer
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 11:25:12 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180913022512.GA24488@jagdpanzerIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180912133347.23ulng4njaa3uzsa@pathway.suse.cz>

On (09/12/18 15:33), Petr Mladek wrote:
> >  	console_trylock();
> >  	console_may_schedule = 0;
> > +	if (exclusive_console) {
> > +		exclusive_console = NULL;
> > +		console_seq = rollback_console_seq;
> 
> This might be controversial. Yes, it might help in some situations
> (slow exclusive console). But it might be counterproductive
> when the exclusive console is the one that is readable
> after the crash, used for debugging and this change causes
> an incomplete log.

Well, OK. We still print oops messages, just get to this point sooner.

> I would do this change only when people complains about
> the current behavior.

OK. Agreed.

> I think that more important is to do:
[..]
> IMHO, this is a clear win. It fixes a clear mistake.
> 
> I would just rename the variable to exclusive_console_seq_stop or so.

OK. Send a patch.

Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>


	-ss

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-13  2:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-04 18:01 [PATCH 4.19 regression fix] printk: For early boot messages check loglevel when flushing the buffer Hans de Goede
2018-09-05  2:35 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-05  4:53   ` Hans de Goede
2018-09-05  5:36     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-05  5:51       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-05  8:33       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-05 11:02         ` Petr Mladek
2018-09-05 15:20           ` Hans de Goede
2018-09-06 14:31             ` Petr Mladek
2018-09-06  7:29           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-06 14:28             ` Petr Mladek
2018-09-07  4:21               ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-10 14:57                 ` Petr Mladek
2018-09-10 15:02                   ` Hans de Goede
2018-09-11  2:30                   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-11  8:47                     ` Petr Mladek
2018-09-12  7:49                       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-12 13:33                         ` Petr Mladek
2018-09-13  2:25                           ` Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]
2018-09-06 14:34 ` kbuild test robot

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