On 2005-07-08T13:36:12, David Howells <[email protected]> wrote:
> The attached patch prevents oopses interleaving with characters from other
> printks on other CPUs by only breaking the lock if the oops is happening on
> the machine holding the lock.
>
> It might be better if the oops generator got the lock and then called an inner
> vprintk routine that assumed the caller holds the lock, thus making oops
> reports "atomic".
>
> Signed-Off-By: David Howells <[email protected]>
After some discussion on IRC (me asking dumb questions) and reviewing
the code I'm in infinite favour of this patch. It clearly is a step in a
mucho desireable direction.
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <[email protected]>
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