Re: OpenGL-based framebuffer concepts

["Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>]

Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 6/1/06, D. Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net> wrote:
> 
> Printk works from inside interrupt handlers currently. This is an
> absolute requirement for kernel debugging that can't be removed.
> Because of this requirement there has to be a way for all drivers to
> draw the console entirely inside the kernel. You can not make calls to
> user space from inside interrupt handlers.
> 
>> > > 6) Things like panics should be visible no matter what is running. No
>> > > more silent deaths.
> 
> Panics can occur inside interrupt handlers. You can't queue up printks
> in this context and they display them later, the kernel just died,
> there is no later.
> 

Console writes are done with the console semaphore held. printk will also
just write to the log buffer and defer the actual console printing
for later, by the next or current process that will grab the semaphore.

Tony
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