Re: [PATCH 1/4] printk: Disable preemption for printk_sched

[Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>]

On Mon 05-05-14 13:47:41, John Stultz wrote:
> An earlier change in -mm (printk: remove separate printk_sched
> buffers...), removed the printk_sched irqsave/restore lines
> since it was safe for current users. Since we may be expanding
> usage of printk_sched(), disable preepmtion for this function
> to make it more generally safe to call.
  Looks good to me. You can add:
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

							Honza
> 
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
> ---
>  kernel/printk/printk.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
> index 82d19e6..57467df 100644
> --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
> +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
> @@ -2589,12 +2589,14 @@ int printk_sched(const char *fmt, ...)
>  	va_list args;
>  	int r;
>  
> +	preempt_disable();
>  	va_start(args, fmt);
>  	r = vprintk_emit(0, SCHED_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL, NULL, 0, fmt, args);
>  	va_end(args);
>  
>  	__this_cpu_or(printk_pending, PRINTK_PENDING_OUTPUT);
>  	irq_work_queue(&__get_cpu_var(wake_up_klogd_work));
> +	preempt_enable();
>  
>  	return r;
>  }
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR