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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2008-08-08 15:47:09 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-08-11 07:46:53 -0400
commitb845b517b5e3706a3729f6ea83b88ab85f0725b0 (patch)
tree4311e4c2e6c3fdbdbe89149d1501944294186455 /include/linux/kernel.h
parent796aadeb1b2db9b5d463946766c5bbfd7717158c (diff)
printk: robustify printk
Avoid deadlocks against rq->lock and xtime_lock by deferring the klogd wakeup by polling from the timer tick. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/kernel.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kernel.h4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index aaa998f65c7a..113ac8d0425f 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -200,6 +200,8 @@ extern struct ratelimit_state printk_ratelimit_state;
200extern int printk_ratelimit(void); 200extern int printk_ratelimit(void);
201extern bool printk_timed_ratelimit(unsigned long *caller_jiffies, 201extern bool printk_timed_ratelimit(unsigned long *caller_jiffies,
202 unsigned int interval_msec); 202 unsigned int interval_msec);
203extern void printk_tick(void);
204extern int printk_needs_cpu(int);
203#else 205#else
204static inline int vprintk(const char *s, va_list args) 206static inline int vprintk(const char *s, va_list args)
205 __attribute__ ((format (printf, 1, 0))); 207 __attribute__ ((format (printf, 1, 0)));
@@ -211,6 +213,8 @@ static inline int printk_ratelimit(void) { return 0; }
211static inline bool printk_timed_ratelimit(unsigned long *caller_jiffies, \ 213static inline bool printk_timed_ratelimit(unsigned long *caller_jiffies, \
212 unsigned int interval_msec) \ 214 unsigned int interval_msec) \
213 { return false; } 215 { return false; }
216static inline void printk_tick(void) { }
217static inline int printk_needs_cpu(int) { return 0; }
214#endif 218#endif
215 219
216extern void asmlinkage __attribute__((format(printf, 1, 2))) 220extern void asmlinkage __attribute__((format(printf, 1, 2)))