linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes

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Date:   Wed, 10 Jan 2018 11:50:31 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
        rostedt@...e.goodmis.org, Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@....com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to
 load balance console writes

On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 14:24:17 +0100
Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com> wrote:

> From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>

Please remove the above From:, it will overwrite the one below which I
would prefer to have.

Thanks!

-- Steve

> 
> From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> 
> This patch implements what I discussed in Kernel Summit. I added
> lockdep annotation (hopefully correctly), and it hasn't had any splats
> (since I fixed some bugs in the first iterations). It did catch
> problems when I had the owner covering too much. But now that the owner
> is only set when actively calling the consoles, lockdep has stayed
> quiet.
>