linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/3] make printk work again

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Message-Id: <20161018170830.405990950@infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 18 Oct 2016 19:08:30 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Calvin Owens <calvinowens@...com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] make printk work again

This basically fixes printk by evading everything it does.

There's too many problems with printk, from sleeping locks to broken console
drivers. Stop using it.

The early_console drivers are the most robust and simple, use those.