> (and -- don't laugh -- explore why printk disables interrupts and prevents > cpu migration while calling the console drivers. Seems ok to me...)
It disables interrupts so that the chance of the oops getting out is maximised, it locks down some of the other bits to try and stop interleaved oopses producing garbage when say a 16 way server goes pop and all the cpus oops at once. Not sure about the migration 8) Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
