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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] printk: robustify printk


    On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

    > On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 13:32 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
    >
    > > How about if I instead add comments warning people not to put printk()
    > > in the relevant RCU-implementation code? That way I can be not only lazy,
    > > but cowardly as well! ;-)
    >
    > Well, it does spoil the party a little, we are now trading one deadlock
    > for another :-/

    Yeah, but only Paul and his clones would need printks in preempt RCU.

    The rest of us mortals now have the rest of the kernel to play with.

    -- Steve



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