From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757445Ab1FINco (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2011 09:32:44 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:35380 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758024Ab1FINcj (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2011 09:32:39 -0400 Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 15:32:28 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Linus Torvalds , Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, efault@gmx.de, Arne Jansen Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] printk: Avoid all wakeups from printk Message-ID: <20110609133228.GB21100@elte.hu> References: <20110609130647.937204592@chello.nl> <20110609131307.590149293@chello.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110609131307.590149293@chello.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.3.1 -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Peter Zijlstra wrote: > +void console_unlock(void) > +{ > + if (console_suspended) { > + up(&console_sem); > + return; > + } > + > + __console_flush(); > + > + up(&console_sem); > +} Hm, this seems to be a very roundabout way of doing: void console_unlock(void) { if (!console_suspended) __console_flush(); up(&console_sem); } Right? Thanks, Ingo