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Message-ID: <20071207104013.GC27307@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 7 Dec 2007 11:40:13 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@...imi.it>,
	Robert Love <rml@...h9.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scheduler: fix x86 regression in native_sched_clock


* Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> > -				t = printk_clock();
> > +				t = cpu_clock(printk_cpu);
> >  				nanosec_rem = do_div(t, 1000000000);
> >  				tlen = sprintf(tbuf,
> >  						"<%c>[%5lu.%06lu] ",
> 
> A bit risky - it's quite an expansion of code which no longer can call 
> printk.
> 
> You might want to take that WARN_ON out of __update_rq_clock() ;)

hm, dont we already detect printk recursions and turn them into a silent 
return instead of a hang/crash?

	Ingo
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