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Message-ID: <Y3drEOkD1fuZcvV2@alley>
Date:   Fri, 18 Nov 2022 12:22:56 +0100
From:   Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
To:     John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH printk v5 00/40] reduce console_lock scope

On Wed 2022-11-16 17:27:12, John Ogness wrote:
> This is v5 of a series to prepare for threaded/atomic
> printing. v4 is here [0]. This series focuses on reducing the
> scope of the BKL console_lock. It achieves this by switching to
> SRCU and a dedicated mutex for console list iteration and
> modification, respectively. The console_lock will no longer
> offer this protection.

The patchset looks ready for linux-next from my POV.

I am going to push it there right now to get as much testing
as possible before the merge window.

Any review and comments are still appreciate. We could always
take it back if some critical problems are discovered and
can't be solved easily.

Best Regards,
Petr

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