linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/6] Use printk_safe context for TTY and UART port locks

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Message-ID: <20180623052149.GA402@tigerII.localdomain>
Date:   Sat, 23 Jun 2018 14:21:49 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
To:     Alan Cox <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-serial <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>,
        SergeySenozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/6] Use printk_safe context for TTY and UART port
 locks

On (06/22/18 17:21), Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 11:44:13 +0900
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 11:34 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Perhaps we should do an audit of the console drivers and remove all
> > > printk, pr_* , WARN*, BUG* from them.  
> > 
> > Only the actual _printing_ parts.
> 
> No because they are normally rather useful because that port isn't the
> console. If you trylock

trylock is boring, me wants printk_safe_mask everywhere :)

> Really that's all that you need - log the message to whichever console
> targets you can currently safely do so. If it's none well there was
> always the proposed morse code keyboard light driver 8)

Hm, just discard messages? With printk_safe_mask we keep everything
in a lockless per-CPU buffer, which we flush [per-CPU buffer -> printk logbuf]
from irq_work, so we can print it later.

	-ss