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Jiri Kosina 1492192b4a kernel/printk.c: document possible deadlock against scheduler
kernel/printk.c: document possible deadlock against scheduler

The printk's comment states that it can be called from every context,
which might lead to false illusion that it could be called from everywhere
without any restrictions.

This is however not true - a call to printk() could deadlock if called from
scheduler code (namely from schedule(), wake_up(), etc) on runqueue lock
when it tries to wake up klogd. Document this.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
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irq Improve behaviour of spurious IRQ detect 2007-07-16 09:05:46 -07:00
power PM: introduce set_target method in pm_ops 2007-07-01 12:29:44 -07:00
time Remove capability.h from mm.h 2007-07-16 09:05:45 -07:00
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acct.c
audit.c Audit: add TTY input auditing 2007-07-16 09:05:47 -07:00
audit.h Audit: add TTY input auditing 2007-07-16 09:05:47 -07:00
auditfilter.c audit: fix oops removing watch if audit disabled 2007-06-24 08:59:12 -07:00
auditsc.c kerneldoc fix in audit_core_dumps 2007-07-16 09:05:48 -07:00
capability.c
compat.c signal/timer/event: timerfd compat code 2007-05-11 08:29:36 -07:00
configs.c use simple_read_from_buffer in kernel/ 2007-05-09 12:30:49 -07:00
cpu.c microcode: use suspend-related CPU hotplug notifications 2007-05-09 12:30:56 -07:00
cpuset.c Reduce cpuset.c write_lock_irq() to read_lock() 2007-07-16 09:05:43 -07:00
delayacct.c sched: update delay-accounting to use CFS's precise stats 2007-07-09 18:52:00 +02:00
die_notifier.c move die notifier handling to common code 2007-05-08 11:15:04 -07:00
dma.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c Audit: add TTY input auditing 2007-07-16 09:05:47 -07:00
extable.c
fork.c user namespace: add unshare 2007-07-16 09:05:47 -07:00
futex_compat.c Revert "futex_requeue_pi optimization" 2007-06-18 09:48:41 -07:00
futex.c FUTEX: Tidy up the code 2007-07-16 09:05:49 -07:00
hrtimer.c Add suspend-related notifications for CPU hotplug 2007-05-09 12:30:56 -07:00
itimer.c The scheduled -EINVAL for invalid timevals in setitimer 2007-05-08 11:15:13 -07:00
kallsyms.c sprint_symbol() cleanup 2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.preempt Fix trivial typos in Kconfig* files 2007-05-09 07:12:20 +02:00
kexec.c kdump/kexec: calculate note size at compile time 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
kfifo.c is_power_of_2: kernel/kfifo.c 2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
kmod.c wait_for_helper: remove unneeded do_sigaction() 2007-05-09 12:30:53 -07:00
kprobes.c Kprobes: The ON/OFF knob thru debugfs 2007-05-08 11:15:19 -07:00
ksysfs.c remove "struct subsystem" as it is no longer needed 2007-05-02 18:57:59 -07:00
kthread.c mm: fix improper .init-type section references 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
latency.c
lockdep_internals.h
lockdep_proc.c
lockdep.c lockdep: removed unused ip argument in mark_lock & mark_held_locks 2007-05-08 11:15:13 -07:00
Makefile user namespace: add the framework 2007-07-16 09:05:47 -07:00
module.c modules: remove modlist_lock 2007-07-16 09:05:51 -07:00
mutex-debug.c
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c wrap access to thread_info 2007-05-09 12:30:56 -07:00
mutex.h
nsproxy.c namespace: ensure clone_flags are always stored in an unsigned long 2007-07-16 09:05:48 -07:00
panic.c
params.c sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->owner 2007-07-11 16:09:06 -07:00
pid.c namespace: ensure clone_flags are always stored in an unsigned long 2007-07-16 09:05:48 -07:00
posix-cpu-timers.c sched: make posix-cpu-timers use CFS's accounting information 2007-07-09 18:51:58 +02:00
posix-timers.c posix-timers: Prevent softirq starvation by small intervals and SIG_IGN 2007-06-21 15:57:04 -07:00
printk.c kernel/printk.c: document possible deadlock against scheduler 2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
profile.c Detach sched.h from mm.h 2007-05-21 09:18:19 -07:00
ptrace.c Use write_trylock_irqsave in ptrace_attach 2007-07-16 09:05:40 -07:00
rcupdate.c Add suspend-related notifications for CPU hotplug 2007-05-09 12:30:56 -07:00
rcutorture.c rcutorture: Remove redundant assignment to cur_ops in for loop 2007-05-08 11:15:17 -07:00
relay.c relay: fixup kerneldoc comment 2007-07-13 14:14:28 +02:00
resource.c
rtmutex_common.h FUTEX: Tidy up the code 2007-07-16 09:05:49 -07:00
rtmutex-debug.c FUTEX: Tidy up the code 2007-07-16 09:05:49 -07:00
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c
rtmutex.c FUTEX: Tidy up the code 2007-07-16 09:05:49 -07:00
rtmutex.h
rwsem.c Lockdep treats down_write_trylock like regular down_write 2007-05-08 11:15:09 -07:00
sched_debug.c [PATCH] sched: remove stale version info from kernel/sched_debug.c 2007-07-13 10:10:41 -07:00
sched_fair.c sched: cfs core, kernel/sched_fair.c 2007-07-09 18:51:58 +02:00
sched_idletask.c sched: cfs core, kernel/sched_idletask.c 2007-07-09 18:51:58 +02:00
sched_rt.c sched: cfs core, kernel/sched_rt.c 2007-07-09 18:51:58 +02:00
sched_stats.h sched: update delay-accounting to use CFS's precise stats 2007-07-09 18:52:00 +02:00
sched.c CFS: Fix missing digit off in wmult table 2007-07-13 16:45:43 -07:00
seccomp.c make seccomp zerocost in schedule 2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
signal.c vdso: print fatal signals 2007-07-16 09:05:43 -07:00
softirq.c cpu hotplug: fix ksoftirqd termination on cpu hotplug with naughty realtime process 2007-07-16 09:05:41 -07:00
softlockup.c Add suspend-related notifications for CPU hotplug 2007-05-09 12:30:56 -07:00
spinlock.c
srcu.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c Fix stop_machine_run problem with naughty real time process 2007-07-16 09:05:41 -07:00
sys_ni.c diskquota: 32bit quota tools on 64bit architectures 2007-07-16 09:05:48 -07:00
sys.c move seccomp from /proc to a prctl 2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
sysctl.c sysctl.c: add text telling people to use CTL_UNNUMBERED 2007-07-16 09:05:49 -07:00
taskstats.c taskstats: add context-switch counters 2007-07-16 09:05:46 -07:00
time.c sys_time() speedup 2007-07-16 09:05:48 -07:00
timer.c Add a flag to indicate deferrable timers in /proc/timer_stats 2007-07-16 09:05:45 -07:00
tsacct.c
uid16.c header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
user_namespace.c fix create_new_namespaces() return value 2007-07-16 09:05:47 -07:00
user.c user namespace: add the framework 2007-07-16 09:05:47 -07:00
utsname_sysctl.c remove CONFIG_UTS_NS and CONFIG_IPC_NS 2007-07-16 09:05:47 -07:00
utsname.c namespace: ensure clone_flags are always stored in an unsigned long 2007-07-16 09:05:48 -07:00
wait.c Fix occurrences of "the the " 2007-05-09 08:57:56 +02:00
workqueue.c make cancel_xxx_work_sync() return a boolean 2007-07-16 09:05:51 -07:00