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Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 17:37:58 +0200
From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCHv2 5/8] sysrq: switch to printk.emergency mode in
 unsafe places
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On Wed 2017-03-29 18:25:08, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> It's not always possible/safe to wake_up() printk kernel
> thread from sysrq (theoretically). Thus we better switch
> printk() to emergency mode in some of the sysrq handlers,
> which allows us to immediately flush pending kernel message
> to the console.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
> Suggested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>

It looks like a decent selection. It is pity that some of
them might produce rather long output and theoretically
cause a softlookup. But I do not know about a better solution
at the moment. In each case, it will not be worse than before
this patchset.

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>

Best Regards,
Petr