Re: 4.14 backport request for dbdda842fe96f: "printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes"

Daniel Wang
2018-10-01T20:38:49Z

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On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 1:23 PM Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> On 10/1/18 10:13 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >
> > Dunno. Is the patch perhaps a bit too complex? This is not exactly
> > trivial bugfix.
> >
> > pavel@duo:/data/l/clean-cg$ git show dbdda842fe96f | diffstat
> > printk.c | 108
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >
> > I see that it is pretty critical to Daniel, but maybe kernel with
> > console locking redone should no longer be called 4.4?
>
> In that case it probably should no longer be called 4.4 since at least
> Meltdown/Spectre fixes :)

To clarify, I am requesting a backport to 4.14. This bug doesn't repro on 4.4.

>

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Best,
Daniel

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