Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] asynchronous printk

[Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>]

On 19-07-16, 10:58, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-07-19 at 23:55 +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On (07/19/16 07:45), James Bottomley wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2016-07-19 at 12:47 +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > Wondering if anyone will be interested in printk-related topics
> > > > (or we can handle it in the mailing list).
> > > > 
> > > > What I have on my list is:
> > > 
> > > Are there any bug reports for these cases?  If there are, I'd use 
> > > the bug report as an opportunity to fix on the relevant list and if
> > > there aren't, I'd say that the problem is then largely theoretical 
> > > and there's not much point solving it until it becomes a real
> > > problem.
> > 
> > yes, there are reports. for instance,
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=146823278316663
> 
> That's about backporting a fix from upstream to 3.12 to fix the
> particular issue, so it seems to be solved for the reporter as far as
> it goes.

Not really, we need patches from Sergey and Jan for async printing to make it
work.

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viresh