4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> commit a338f84dc196f44b63ba0863d2f34fd9b1613572 upstream. It is just a preparation step. The patch does not change the existing behavior. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180627140817.27764-3-pmladek@xxxxxxxx To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/printk/printk.c | 14 +++++++++----- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c @@ -2723,16 +2723,20 @@ void wake_up_klogd(void) preempt_enable(); } -int vprintk_deferred(const char *fmt, va_list args) +void defer_console_output(void) { - int r; - - r = vprintk_emit(0, LOGLEVEL_SCHED, NULL, 0, fmt, args); - preempt_disable(); __this_cpu_or(printk_pending, PRINTK_PENDING_OUTPUT); irq_work_queue(this_cpu_ptr(&wake_up_klogd_work)); preempt_enable(); +} + +int vprintk_deferred(const char *fmt, va_list args) +{ + int r; + + r = vprintk_emit(0, LOGLEVEL_SCHED, NULL, 0, fmt, args); + defer_console_output(); return r; }