On Tue, 1 Nov 2016, Lu Baolu wrote:
> +static void early_xdbc_write(struct console *con, const char *str, u32 n)
> +{
> +     int chunk, ret;
> +     static char buf[XDBC_MAX_PACKET];
> +     int use_cr = 0;
> +
> +     if (!xdbc.xdbc_reg)
> +             return;
> +     memset(buf, 0, XDBC_MAX_PACKET);

How is that dealing with reentrancy?

early_printk() does not protect against it. Peter has a patch to prevent
concurrent access from different cpus, but it cannot and will never prevent
reentrancy on the same cpu (interrupt, nmi).

Thanks,

        tglx
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