Re: 4.14 backport request for dbdda842fe96f: "printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes"

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On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 01:37:30PM -0700, Daniel Wang wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 12:23 PM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > Serial console logs leading up to the deadlock. As can be seen the stack trace
>> > was incomplete because the printing path hit a timeout.
>>
>> I'm fine with having this backported.
>
>Thanks. I can send the cherrypicks your way. Do you recommend that I
>include the three follow-up fixes though?
>
>c14376de3a1b printk: Wake klogd when passing console_lock owner
>fd5f7cde1b85 printk: Never set console_may_schedule in console_trylock()
>c162d5b4338d printk: Hide console waiter logic into helpers
>dbdda842fe96 printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load
>balance console writes

Maybe it'll also make sense to make the reproducer into a test that can
go under tools/testing/ and we can backport that as well? It'll be
helpful to have a way to make sure things are sane.

--
Thanks,
Sasha



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