From b845b517b5e3706a3729f6ea83b88ab85f0725b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 21:47:09 +0200 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/kernel.h | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux') 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; extern int printk_ratelimit(void); extern bool printk_timed_ratelimit(unsigned long *caller_jiffies, unsigned int interval_msec); +extern void printk_tick(void); +extern int printk_needs_cpu(int); #else static inline int vprintk(const char *s, va_list args) __attribute__ ((format (printf, 1, 0))); @@ -211,6 +213,8 @@ static inline int printk_ratelimit(void) { return 0; } static inline bool printk_timed_ratelimit(unsigned long *caller_jiffies, \ unsigned int interval_msec) \ { return false; } +static inline void printk_tick(void) { } +static inline int printk_needs_cpu(int) { return 0; } #endif extern void asmlinkage __attribute__((format(printf, 1, 2))) -- cgit v1.2.2