linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fbcon: fix race condition between console lock and cursor timer

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Message-ID: <1345551345.23018.107.camel@twins>
Date:	Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:15:45 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
	dri-devel@...ts.sf.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbcon: fix race condition between console lock and
 cursor timer

On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 10:15 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > So after much tracing with direct netconsole writes (printks
> > under console_lock not so useful), I think I found the race.
> 
> Direct netconsole write would be a useful patch to have mainline I think
> 8) 

could we make that use the earlyprintk infrastructure?
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