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Message-ID: <20180123095652.5e14da85@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Tue, 23 Jan 2018 09:56:52 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
Cc:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        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>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] printk: Console owner and waiter logic cleanup

On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:40:23 +0900
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com> wrote:

> Why do we even use irq_work for printk_safe?

Why not?

Really, I think you are trying to solve a symptom and not the problem.
If we are having issues with irq_work, we are going to have issues with
a work queue. It's just spreading out the problem instead of fixing it.

-- Steve

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