linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCHv6 00/12] printk: introduce printing kernel thread

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Date:   Wed, 10 Jan 2018 06:04:08 -0800
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Rafael Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCHv6 00/12] printk: introduce printing kernel thread

Hello, Steven.

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 02:18:27AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> My point is, that your test is only hammering at a single CPU. You say
> it is the scenario you see, which means that the OOM is printing out
> more than it should, because if it prints it out once, it should not
> print it out again for the same process, or go into a loop doing it
> over and over on a single CPU. That would be a bug in the
> implementation.

That's not what's happening.  You're not actually reading what I'm
writing.  Can you please go back and re-read the scenario I've been
describing over and over again.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun