Re: [PATCH] defer printks in irqs

2008-01-28 Thread Tim Bird
Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:23:03 -0800 Tim Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Peter Zijlstra wrote: I suspect these features reduce the chance a crash messages makes it out onto the console, but fail to spot any of the copious text mention this critical issue. Anything not in inte

Re: [PATCH] defer printks in irqs

2008-01-26 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:23:03 -0800 Tim Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > I suspect these features reduce the chance a crash messages makes it out > > onto the console, but fail to spot any of the copious text mention this > > critical issue. > > Anything not in interrup

Re: [PATCH] defer printks in irqs

2008-01-24 Thread Tim Bird
Peter Zijlstra wrote: > I suspect these features reduce the chance a crash messages makes it out > onto the console, but fail to spot any of the copious text mention this > critical issue. Anything not in interrupts would not be deferred. The following code is meant to avoid deferring in oops as w

Re: [PATCH] defer printks in irqs

2008-01-24 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 14:42 -0800, Tim Bird wrote: > Steven Rostedt wrote: > > Tim, could you send me your "postponed print" patches. That sounds like > > something the -rt patch could use. > > Sure. See below. > > This patch changes the way the printk code processes output to the > console buf

[PATCH] defer printks in irqs

2008-01-24 Thread Tim Bird
Steven Rostedt wrote: > Tim, could you send me your "postponed print" patches. That sounds like > something the -rt patch could use. Sure. See below. This patch changes the way the printk code processes output to the console buffer. On some platforms, especially those with a serial console, the