linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] printk_legacy_map: use LD_WAIT_CONFIG instead of LD_WAIT

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Message-ID: <aQJIFHRMFsJ-G-ua@pathway.suse.cz>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:00:04 +0100
From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] printk_legacy_map: use LD_WAIT_CONFIG instead of
 LD_WAIT_SLEEP

On Sun 2025-10-26 16:07:26, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> printk_legacy_map is used to hide lock nesting violations caused by
> legacy drivers and is using the wrong override type. LD_WAIT_SLEEP is
> for always sleeping lock types such as mutex_t. LD_WAIT_CONFIG is for
> lock type which are sleeping while spinning on PREEMPT_RT such as
> spinlock_t.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>

JFYI, the patch has been comitted into printk/linux.git,
branch rework/threaded-printk.

It is queued for 6.19 merge window.

Best Regards,
Petr