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

On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 12:23 PM Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org wrote:

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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

-- Steve