linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] printk: wake up klogd in vprintk

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Date:   Thu, 19 Apr 2018 10:17:28 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] printk: wake up klogd in vprintk_emit

On (04/18/18 11:10), Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> > > Calling wake_up_klogd() will grab the rq lock and give us a A-B<->B-A
> > > locking order.  
> > 
> > wake_up_klogd() uses the lockless irq_work_queue(). So it is actually
> > safe.
> 
> I didn't look at the code. OK then we don't need to worry about that.

OK.

> > 
> > But the name is confusing. We should rename it.
> 
> Yes, I would because the old wake_up_klogd() did do a wakeup. Perhaps
> we should name it: kick_klogd().

Agreed.

	-ss