On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 17:02:14 +0200 Petr Mladek <pmla...@suse.com> wrote:
> > Calling wake_up_klogd() will grab the rq lock and give us a A-B<->B-A > > locking order. > > wake_up_klogd() uses the lockless irq_work_queue(). So it is actually > safe. I didn't look at the code. OK then we don't need to worry about that. > > But the name is confusing. We should rename it. Yes, I would because the old wake_up_klogd() did do a wakeup. Perhaps we should name it: kick_klogd(). -- Steve