linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] lockdep: Use line-buffered printk() for lockdep messages.

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Date:   Thu, 8 Nov 2018 20:37:39 +0900
From:   Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>
To:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] lockdep: Use line-buffered printk() for lockdep
 messages.

On 2018/11/08 13:45, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> So, can we just do the following? /* a sketch */
> 
> lockdep.c
> 	printk_safe_enter_irqsave(flags);
> 	lockdep_report();
> 	printk_safe_exit_irqrestore(flags);

If buffer size were large enough to hold messages from out_of_memory(),
I would like to use it for out_of_memory() because delaying SIGKILL
due to waiting for printk() to complete is not good. Surely we can't
hold all messages because amount from dump_tasks() is unpredictable.
Maybe we can hold all messages from dump_header() except dump_tasks().

But isn't it essentially same with
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1493560477-3016-1-git-send-email-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
which Linus does not want?