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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk/nmi: Prevent deadlock when serializing NMI
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On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 17:27:16 +0900
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> wrote:

> On (06/19/18 09:52), Petr Mladek wrote:
> > On Mon 2018-06-18 19:07:18, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:  
> > > On (06/18/18 11:39), Petr Mladek wrote:
> > > [..]
> > > 
> > > Hmm. Can't answer right now :)  
> > 
> > Please, let me know what name you would like ;-)  
> 
> :) Wow, it's hard. Maybe we can derive some bits from the ftrace_dump()
> function name? Dunno... Does printk_dump_nmi_enter() sound terrible?
> 
> Maybe Steven has some opinions on this?
> 

What exactly is the question?

Also, from a previous email in this thread, if you have to risk
interleaved output to solve a deadlock, then just do that.

-- Steve