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Jan Kara 5874af2003 printk: enable interrupts before calling console_trylock_for_printk() 
We need interrupts disabled when calling console_trylock_for_printk()
only so that cpu id we pass to can_use_console() remains valid (for
other things console_sem provides all the exclusion we need and
deadlocks on console_sem due to interrupts are impossible because we use
down_trylock()).  However if we are rescheduled, we are guaranteed to
run on an online cpu so we can easily just get the cpu id in
can_use_console().

We can lose a bit of performance when we enable interrupts in
vprintk_emit() and then disable them again in console_unlock() but OTOH
it can somewhat reduce interrupt latency caused by console_unlock().

We differ from (reverted) commit 939f04bec1 in that we avoid calling
console_unlock() from vprintk_emit() with lockdep enabled as that has
unveiled quite some bugs leading to system freezes during boot (e.g.
  https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/30/242,
  https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/28/521).

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Andreas Bombe <aeb@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-08-06 18:01:24 -07:00
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braille.c printk: Fix return of braille_register_console() 2013-08-06 13:18:12 -07:00
braille.h printk: move braille console support into separate braille.[ch] files 2013-07-31 14:41:03 -07:00
console_cmdline.h
Makefile printk: move braille console support into separate braille.[ch] files 2013-07-31 14:41:03 -07:00
printk.c printk: enable interrupts before calling console_trylock_for_printk() 2014-08-06 18:01:24 -07:00