linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] printk: Hand over printing to console if printing too long

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Date:	Thu, 13 Mar 2014 23:26:36 +0000
From:	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	pmladek@...e.cz, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] printk: Hand over printing to console if printing
 too long

> Creating yet more kernel threads to solve this problem is a bit sad. 
> Is there no way in which we can borrow one of the existing threads?

schedule_work()

Surely that's all we need, if we get bunged up for a bit then it ends up
on a work queue item and everyone with a billion disks and a 9600 baud
serial port is still happy. Nobody else will ever see it.

Alan
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