linux-kernel - [RFC][PATCHv4 1/6] printk: use vprintk

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Message-Id: <20161027154933.1211-2-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 28 Oct 2016 00:49:28 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
To:     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>,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
Subject: [RFC][PATCHv4 1/6] printk: use vprintk_func in vprintk()

vprintk(), just like printk(), better be using per-cpu printk_func
instead of direct vprintk_emit() call. Just in case if vprintk()
will ever be called from NMI, or from any other context that can
deadlock in printk().

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
---
 kernel/printk/printk.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index de08fc9..539f31b 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -1921,7 +1921,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vprintk_emit);
 
 asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
 {
-	return vprintk_emit(0, LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT, NULL, 0, fmt, args);
+	return vprintk_func(fmt, args);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(vprintk);
 
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