| Date | Fri, 18 Nov 2022 15:55:27 +0100 | From | Petr Mladek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH printk v5 00/40] reduce console_lock scope |
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On Fri 2022-11-18 12:22:58, Petr Mladek wrote: > On Wed 2022-11-16 17:27:12, John Ogness wrote: > > This is v5 of a series to prepare for threaded/atomic > > printing. v4 is here [0]. This series focuses on reducing the > > scope of the BKL console_lock. It achieves this by switching to > > SRCU and a dedicated mutex for console list iteration and > > modification, respectively. The console_lock will no longer > > offer this protection. > > The patchset looks ready for linux-next from my POV. > > I am going to push it there right now to get as much testing > as possible before the merge window.
JFYI, the patchset is committed in printk/linux.git, branch rework/console-list-lock.
I'll eventually merge it into rework/kthreads. But I wanted to have it separated until it gets some more testing in linux-next and eventually some more review.
Best Regards, Petr
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