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Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 11:30:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, mingo@...e.hu,
tglx@...utronix.de, marcin.slusarz@...il.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
Paul E McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: robustify printk
On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> Avoid deadlocks against rq->lock and xtime_lock by using RCU to defer
> the klogd wakeup.
Ok, I can't see anything wrong with this from the patch. I do hate that
deadlock, so I think I'll apply it. But I'll try to hold off for a while
in case somebody has any last-minute comments..
Linus
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