Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Mar 2014 23:26:36 +0000 | From | One Thousand Gnomes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/6] printk: Hand over printing to console if printing too long |
| |
> Creating yet more kernel threads to solve this problem is a bit sad. > Is there no way in which we can borrow one of the existing threads?
schedule_work()
Surely that's all we need, if we get bunged up for a bit then it ends up on a work queue item and everyone with a billion disks and a 9600 baud serial port is still happy. Nobody else will ever see it.
Alan
| |