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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH arm: initial TI-Nspire support]
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On Monday 08 April 2013, Fabian Vogt wrote:
> Yes, I've heard that before, but than it would work/not work independently
> of NO_HZ. Can printk's be executet within console_lock() ..
> console_unlock() blocks?

I think it's legal to call printk in that case, but the message will
not be printed until you reach the console_unlock()

> If not, it could be fb_notifier_call_chain, too, but that wouldn't be
> likely at all.
> I also tried spinlock/mutex debugging and soft lockup detection,
> but neither of them outputs anything.

Unfortunately, lockdep does not help with console_lock, since that
is a weird semaphore variant, not a standard mutex or spinlock.

Arnd


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