linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: Replace sdev_printk with printk

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Date:   Tue, 27 Mar 2018 14:31:32 +0000
From:   Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@....com>
To:     "jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "wen.yang99@....com.cn" <wen.yang99@....com.cn>,
        "martin.petersen@...cle.com" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
CC:     "linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "jiang.biao2@....com.cn" <jiang.biao2@....com.cn>,
        "zhong.weidong@....com.cn" <zhong.weidong@....com.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: Replace sdev_printk with printk_deferred to avoid

On Thu, 2018-03-08 at 16:50 +0800, Wen Yang wrote:
> When scsi disks went wrong frequently, and with serial console 
> attached, tasks may be blocked in the following flow for more than 10s: [ ... ]

From https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199003: "Hm,
printk_deferred is a bit dangerous; it moves console_unlock() to
IRQ. [ ... ] So I'd say that those two approaches

		printk_deferred + touch_nmi_watchdog

combined can do quite some harm. One thing for sure - they don't really fix
any problems."

Does that mean that this patch should be dropped?

Thanks,

Bart.