On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> So after much tracing with direct netconsole writes (printks >> under console_lock not so useful), I think I found the race. > > Direct netconsole write would be a useful patch to have mainline I think > 8) Well I used a one line wrapper around the netconsole write_msg, which just passed NULL as the first arg, then sprinkled netconsole_write_msg around the place, not having printf stuff could be an annoyance for some people, for this it didn't matter. Peter I wish I had a serial port to work with :-) > > Not really the proper fix but its clear and is probably the best thing to > go in initially with a cc: stable. Can you at least stick a large > > + /* FIXME: we should sort out the unbind locking instead */ Done, and cc stable, I'll send this to Linus via my tree as its fairly urgent from my pov. Dave. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
