On Wed 2019-06-12 17:36:43, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (06/06/19 09:10), Petr Mladek wrote:
> > Just to be sure. I wanted to say that I like the idea with
> > KERN_UNSUPRESSED. So, I think that we are on the same page.
> 
> I understand. All I wanted to say is that KERN_UNSUPRESSED is
> per-message, while the most interesting (and actually broken)
> cases, IMHO, are per-context, IOW things like this one
> 
>       console_loglevel = NEW
>       foo()
>         dump_stack()
>            printk
>            ...
>            printk
>       console_loglevel = OLD
> 
> KERN_UNSUPRESSED does not help here. We probably can't convert
> dump_stack() to KERN_UNSUPRESSED.

I agree. I take KERN_UNSUPRESSED like a nice trick how to pass
the information about the unsupressed printk context via
printk_safe and printk_nmi per-CPU buffers.

The single line in sysrq __handle_sysrq() seems to be the only
location where KERN_UNSUPRESSED can be used directly.

Best Regards,
Petr

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