linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v1 25/25] printk: remove unused code

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Date:   Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:18:26 +0100
From:   Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@...akpoint.cc>
To:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
Cc:     John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Daniel Wang <wonderfly@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Alan Cox <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        Peter Feiner <pfeiner@...gle.com>,
        linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 25/25] printk: remove unused code

On 2019-03-11 11:46:00 [+0900], Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (03/08/19 15:02), Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > On 2019-02-12 15:30:03 [+0100], John Ogness wrote:
> > 
> > you removed the whole `irq_work' thing. You can also remove the include
> > for linux/irq_work.h.
> 
> It may be too early to remove the whole `irq_work' thing.
> printk()->call_console_driver() should take console_sem
> lock.

I would be _very_ glad to see that irq_work thingy gone. I just stumbled
upon this irq_work and cursed a little while doing other things.
Checking John's series and seeing that it was gone, was a relief.
Printing the whole thing in irq context does not look sane. printing the
import things right away and printing the remaining things later in
kthread looks good to me.

> 	-ss

Sebastian