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SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/20 -v5] printk - dont wakeup klogd with interrupts disabled
* Daniel Walker (dwalker@mvista.com) wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 11:02 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> > + if (!irqs_disabled() && wake_klogd)
> > wake_up_klogd();
>
> This causes a regression .. When printk is called during an OOPS in
> kernels without this change then the OOPS will get logged, since the
> logging process (klogd) is woken to handle the messages.. If you apply
> this change klogd doesn't wakeup, and hence doesn't log the oops.. So if
> you remove the wakeup here you have to add it someplace else to maintain
> the logging ..
>
> (I'm not theorizing here, I have defects logged against this specific
> piece of code..)
>

Can we change this for :
if (!(irqs_disabled() && !oops_in_progress) && wake_klogd)
wake_up_klogd();

?

(totally untested)

> Daniel
>

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