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

On 10/1/18 10:13 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:

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?

In that case it probably should no longer be called 4.4 since at least Meltdown/Spectre fixes :)