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

Vlastimil Babka
2018-10-01T20:21:14Z

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 :)