[External] Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched: mark PRINTK_DEFERRED_CONTEXT_MASK in __schedule()

[Sergey Senozhatsky]

On (20/09/29 17:09), Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > 2. The registration and unregistration of consoles should not longer
> >    be handled by console_lock (semaphore). It should be possible to
> >    call most consoles without a sleeping lock. It should remove all
> >    these deadlocks between printk() and scheduler().
> 
> I'm confused, who cares about registation? That only happens once at
> boot, right?

You can modprobe or rmmod (register/unregister) netconsole anytime,
for example.

	-ss