From 1fa63a817d27af7dc0d5ed454eb8fe5dec65fac7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Kosina Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:40:55 +0200 Subject: printk: robustify printk, update comment Remove the comment describing the possibility of printk() deadlocking on runqueue lock. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/printk.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/printk.c') diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c index 57e9cd7a9581..6f27c6a4bdc9 100644 --- a/kernel/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk.c @@ -577,9 +577,6 @@ static int have_callable_console(void) * @fmt: format string * * This is printk(). It can be called from any context. We want it to work. - * Be aware of the fact that if oops_in_progress is not set, we might try to - * wake klogd up which could deadlock on runqueue lock if printk() is called - * from scheduler code. * * We try to grab the console_sem. If we succeed, it's easy - we log the output and * call the console drivers. If we fail to get the semaphore we place the output -- cgit v1.2.3