On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 22:13:10 +0200 Pavel Machek <pa...@ucw.cz> wrote: > > > [1] > > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180409081535.dq7p5bfnpvd3x...@pathway.suse.cz/T/#u > > > > > > 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. > > Dunno. Is the patch perhaps a bit too complex? This is not exactly > trivial bugfix. > > pavel@duo:/data/l/clean-cg$ git show dbdda842fe96f | diffstat > printk.c | 108 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > > I see that it is pretty critical to Daniel, but maybe kernel with > console locking redone should no longer be called 4.4?
But it prevents a deadlock. I usually weigh backporting as benefit vs risk. And I believe the benefit outweighs the risk in this case. -- Steve
