Re: [PATCH printk v1 03/13] printk: use percpu flag instead of cpu_online()

[Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>]

On Sat 2022-03-05 10:05:02, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Hi Petr,
> 
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 04:56:55PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
> 
> > Just for record, the right commit ID in the mainline is
> > 1b710b1b10eff9d466. It used printk_deferred() in _warn_unseeded_randomness():
> > 
> > --- a/drivers/char/random.c
> > +++ b/drivers/char/random.c
> > @@ -1687,8 +1687,9 @@ static void _warn_unseeded_randomness(const char *func_name, void *caller,
> >  	print_once = true;
> >  #endif
> >  	if (__ratelimit(&unseeded_warning))
> > -		pr_notice("random: %s called from %pS with crng_init=%d\n",
> > -			  func_name, caller, crng_init);
> > +		printk_deferred(KERN_NOTICE "random: %s called from %pS "
> > +				"with crng_init=%d\n", func_name, caller,
> > +				crng_init);
> >  }
> 
> Are we able to revert this yet? Or is it still required because of
> locking issues? Would gladly take a patch to revert that if the
> non-deferred function is fine for 5.18.

Unfortunately, printk_deferred() will still be needed in 5.18 here.

One thing is that this patchset introducing console kthreads will not
be ready for 5.18.

But more importantly, the kthreads will not be enough to remove the
cyclic dependency. The legacy synchronous printing will still be used
during early boot, panic, etc.

Honestly, I am still not sure if we will be able to get rid of
printk_deferred(). I hope so but some more magic will be necessary.
Anyway, the kthreads should help to achieve this.

Best Regards,
Petr