<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux.git/fs/sysfs/file.c, branch v5.4</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>sysfs: remove unused include of kernfs-internal.h</title>
<updated>2019-02-08T11:57:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ondrej Mosnacek</name>
<email>omosnace@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-04T14:08:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=5b2f2bd62e79f6bc38fda5a0ff6a699f7612a7d2'/>
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This include is not needed (fs/sysfs/file.c builds just fine without
it). Remove it.

Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek &lt;omosnace@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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This include is not needed (fs/sysfs/file.c builds just fine without
it). Remove it.

Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek &lt;omosnace@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysfs: fix blank line coding style warning</title>
<updated>2019-01-18T15:45:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Martin</name>
<email>lockwood@opperline.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-20T21:50:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=4bd4e92cfe6d2af77938c2a8ac6635c363dc0ac2'/>
<id>4bd4e92cfe6d2af77938c2a8ac6635c363dc0ac2</id>
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Fixed a coding style issue.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Martin &lt;lockwood@opperline.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Fixed a coding style issue.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Martin &lt;lockwood@opperline.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysfs: convert BUG_ON to WARN_ON</title>
<updated>2019-01-07T07:53:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-03T09:23:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=de96e9fea7ba56042f105b6fe163447b280eb800'/>
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It's rude to crash the system just because the developer did something
wrong, as it prevents them from usually even seeing what went wrong.

So convert the few BUG_ON() calls that have snuck into the sysfs code
over the years to WARN_ON() to make it more "friendly".  All of these
are able to be recovered from, so it makes no sense to crash.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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It's rude to crash the system just because the developer did something
wrong, as it prevents them from usually even seeing what went wrong.

So convert the few BUG_ON() calls that have snuck into the sysfs code
over the years to WARN_ON() to make it more "friendly".  All of these
are able to be recovered from, so it makes no sense to crash.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysfs: constify sysfs create/remove files harder</title>
<updated>2018-12-03T16:18:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jani Nikula</name>
<email>jani.nikula@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-04T14:37:49+00:00</published>
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Let the passed in array be const (and thus placed in rodata) instead of
a mutable array of const pointers.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20181004143750.30880-1-jani.nikula@intel.com
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Let the passed in array be const (and thus placed in rodata) instead of
a mutable array of const pointers.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20181004143750.30880-1-jani.nikula@intel.com
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi</title>
<updated>2018-08-16T05:06:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-16T05:06:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=72f02ba66bd83b54054da20eae550123de84da6f'/>
<id>72f02ba66bd83b54054da20eae550123de84da6f</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
 "This is mostly updates to the usual drivers: mpt3sas, lpfc, qla2xxx,
  hisi_sas, smartpqi, megaraid_sas, arcmsr.

  In addition, with the continuing absence of Nic we have target updates
  for tcmu and target core (all with reviews and acks).

  The biggest observable change is going to be that we're (again) trying
  to switch to mulitqueue as the default (a user can still override the
  setting on the kernel command line).

  Other major core stuff is the removal of the remaining Microchannel
  drivers, an update of the internal timers and some reworks of
  completion and result handling"

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (203 commits)
  scsi: core: use blk_mq_run_hw_queues in scsi_kick_queue
  scsi: ufs: remove unnecessary query(DM) UPIU trace
  scsi: qla2xxx: Fix issue reported by static checker for qla2x00_els_dcmd2_sp_done()
  scsi: aacraid: Spelling fix in comment
  scsi: mpt3sas: Fix calltrace observed while running IO &amp; reset
  scsi: aic94xx: fix an error code in aic94xx_init()
  scsi: st: remove redundant pointer STbuffer
  scsi: qla2xxx: Update driver version to 10.00.00.08-k
  scsi: qla2xxx: Migrate NVME N2N handling into state machine
  scsi: qla2xxx: Save frame payload size from ICB
  scsi: qla2xxx: Fix stalled relogin
  scsi: qla2xxx: Fix race between switch cmd completion and timeout
  scsi: qla2xxx: Fix Management Server NPort handle reservation logic
  scsi: qla2xxx: Flush mailbox commands on chip reset
  scsi: qla2xxx: Fix unintended Logout
  scsi: qla2xxx: Fix session state stuck in Get Port DB
  scsi: qla2xxx: Fix redundant fc_rport registration
  scsi: qla2xxx: Silent erroneous message
  scsi: qla2xxx: Prevent sysfs access when chip is down
  scsi: qla2xxx: Add longer window for chip reset
  ...
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Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
 "This is mostly updates to the usual drivers: mpt3sas, lpfc, qla2xxx,
  hisi_sas, smartpqi, megaraid_sas, arcmsr.

  In addition, with the continuing absence of Nic we have target updates
  for tcmu and target core (all with reviews and acks).

  The biggest observable change is going to be that we're (again) trying
  to switch to mulitqueue as the default (a user can still override the
  setting on the kernel command line).

  Other major core stuff is the removal of the remaining Microchannel
  drivers, an update of the internal timers and some reworks of
  completion and result handling"

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (203 commits)
  scsi: core: use blk_mq_run_hw_queues in scsi_kick_queue
  scsi: ufs: remove unnecessary query(DM) UPIU trace
  scsi: qla2xxx: Fix issue reported by static checker for qla2x00_els_dcmd2_sp_done()
  scsi: aacraid: Spelling fix in comment
  scsi: mpt3sas: Fix calltrace observed while running IO &amp; reset
  scsi: aic94xx: fix an error code in aic94xx_init()
  scsi: st: remove redundant pointer STbuffer
  scsi: qla2xxx: Update driver version to 10.00.00.08-k
  scsi: qla2xxx: Migrate NVME N2N handling into state machine
  scsi: qla2xxx: Save frame payload size from ICB
  scsi: qla2xxx: Fix stalled relogin
  scsi: qla2xxx: Fix race between switch cmd completion and timeout
  scsi: qla2xxx: Fix Management Server NPort handle reservation logic
  scsi: qla2xxx: Flush mailbox commands on chip reset
  scsi: qla2xxx: Fix unintended Logout
  scsi: qla2xxx: Fix session state stuck in Get Port DB
  scsi: qla2xxx: Fix redundant fc_rport registration
  scsi: qla2xxx: Silent erroneous message
  scsi: qla2xxx: Prevent sysfs access when chip is down
  scsi: qla2xxx: Add longer window for chip reset
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>scsi: sysfs: Introduce sysfs_{un,}break_active_protection()</title>
<updated>2018-08-02T19:53:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bart Van Assche</name>
<email>bart.vanassche@wdc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-02T17:51:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=2afc9166f79b8f6da5f347f48515215ceee4ae37'/>
<id>2afc9166f79b8f6da5f347f48515215ceee4ae37</id>
<content type='text'>
Introduce these two functions and export them such that the next patch
can add calls to these functions from the SCSI core.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@wdc.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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Introduce these two functions and export them such that the next patch
can add calls to these functions from the SCSI core.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@wdc.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysfs: Fix regression when adding a file to an existing group</title>
<updated>2018-07-29T20:11:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tyler Hicks</name>
<email>tyhicks@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-27T21:33:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d1753390274f7760e5b593cb657ea34f0617e559'/>
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Commit 5f81880d5204 ("sysfs, kobject: allow creating kobject belonging
to arbitrary users") incorrectly changed the argument passed as the
parent parameter when calling sysfs_add_file_mode_ns(). This caused some
sysfs attribute files to not be added correctly to certain groups.

Fixes: 5f81880d5204 ("sysfs, kobject: allow creating kobject belonging to arbitrary users")
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks &lt;tyhicks@canonical.com&gt;
Reported-by: Heiner Kallweit &lt;hkallweit1@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Heiner Kallweit &lt;hkallweit1@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Commit 5f81880d5204 ("sysfs, kobject: allow creating kobject belonging
to arbitrary users") incorrectly changed the argument passed as the
parent parameter when calling sysfs_add_file_mode_ns(). This caused some
sysfs attribute files to not be added correctly to certain groups.

Fixes: 5f81880d5204 ("sysfs, kobject: allow creating kobject belonging to arbitrary users")
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks &lt;tyhicks@canonical.com&gt;
Reported-by: Heiner Kallweit &lt;hkallweit1@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Heiner Kallweit &lt;hkallweit1@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysfs, kobject: allow creating kobject belonging to arbitrary users</title>
<updated>2018-07-21T06:44:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Torokhov</name>
<email>dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-20T21:56:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=5f81880d5204ee2388fd9a75bb850ccd526885b7'/>
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<content type='text'>
Normally kobjects and their sysfs representation belong to global root,
however it is not necessarily the case for objects in separate namespaces.
For example, objects in separate network namespace logically belong to the
container's root and not global root.

This change lays groundwork for allowing network namespace objects
ownership to be transferred to container's root user by defining
get_ownership() callback in ktype structure and using it in sysfs code to
retrieve desired uid/gid when creating sysfs objects for given kobject.

Co-Developed-by: Tyler Hicks &lt;tyhicks@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks &lt;tyhicks@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Normally kobjects and their sysfs representation belong to global root,
however it is not necessarily the case for objects in separate namespaces.
For example, objects in separate network namespace logically belong to the
container's root and not global root.

This change lays groundwork for allowing network namespace objects
ownership to be transferred to container's root user by defining
get_ownership() callback in ktype structure and using it in sysfs code to
retrieve desired uid/gid when creating sysfs objects for given kobject.

Co-Developed-by: Tyler Hicks &lt;tyhicks@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks &lt;tyhicks@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernfs: allow creating kernfs objects with arbitrary uid/gid</title>
<updated>2018-07-21T06:44:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Torokhov</name>
<email>dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-20T21:56:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=488dee96bb62f0b3d9e678cf42574034d5b033a5'/>
<id>488dee96bb62f0b3d9e678cf42574034d5b033a5</id>
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This change allows creating kernfs files and directories with arbitrary
uid/gid instead of always using GLOBAL_ROOT_UID/GID by extending
kernfs_create_dir_ns() and kernfs_create_file_ns() with uid/gid arguments.
The "simple" kernfs_create_file() and kernfs_create_dir() are left alone
and always create objects belonging to the global root.

When creating symlinks ownership (uid/gid) is taken from the target kernfs
object.

Co-Developed-by: Tyler Hicks &lt;tyhicks@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks &lt;tyhicks@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This change allows creating kernfs files and directories with arbitrary
uid/gid instead of always using GLOBAL_ROOT_UID/GID by extending
kernfs_create_dir_ns() and kernfs_create_file_ns() with uid/gid arguments.
The "simple" kernfs_create_file() and kernfs_create_dir() are left alone
and always create objects belonging to the global root.

When creating symlinks ownership (uid/gid) is taken from the target kernfs
object.

Co-Developed-by: Tyler Hicks &lt;tyhicks@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks &lt;tyhicks@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk</title>
<updated>2018-02-01T21:36:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-01T21:36:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ab486bc9a591689f3ac2b6ebc072309371f8f451'/>
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Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Add a console_msg_format command line option:

     The value "default" keeps the old "[time stamp] text\n" format. The
     value "syslog" allows to see the syslog-like "&lt;log
     level&gt;[timestamp] text" format.

     This feature was requested by people doing regression tests, for
     example, 0day robot. They want to have both filtered and full logs
     at hands.

 - Reduce the risk of softlockup:

     Pass the console owner in a busy loop.

     This is a new approach to the old problem. It was first proposed by
     Steven Rostedt on Kernel Summit 2017. It marks a context in which
     the console_lock owner calls console drivers and could not sleep.
     On the other side, printk() callers could detect this state and use
     a busy wait instead of a simple console_trylock(). Finally, the
     console_lock owner checks if there is a busy waiter at the end of
     the special context and eventually passes the console_lock to the
     waiter.

     The hand-off works surprisingly well and helps in many situations.
     Well, there is still a possibility of the softlockup, for example,
     when the flood of messages stops and the last owner still has too
     much to flush.

     There is increasing number of people having problems with
     printk-related softlockups. We might eventually need to get better
     solution. Anyway, this looks like a good start and promising
     direction.

 - Do not allow to schedule in console_unlock() called from printk():

     This reverts an older controversial commit. The reschedule helped
     to avoid softlockups. But it also slowed down the console output.
     This patch is obsoleted by the new console waiter logic described
     above. In fact, the reschedule made the hand-off less effective.

 - Deprecate "%pf" and "%pF" format specifier:

     It was needed on ia64, ppc64 and parisc64 to dereference function
     descriptors and show the real function address. It is done
     transparently by "%ps" and "pS" format specifier now.

     Sergey Senozhatsky found that all the function descriptors were in
     a special elf section and could be easily detected.

 - Remove printk_symbol() API:

     It has been obsoleted by "%pS" format specifier, and this change
     helped to remove few continuous lines and a less intuitive old API.

 - Remove redundant memsets:

     Sergey removed unnecessary memset when processing printk.devkmsg
     command line option.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk: (27 commits)
  printk: drop redundant devkmsg_log_str memsets
  printk: Never set console_may_schedule in console_trylock()
  printk: Hide console waiter logic into helpers
  printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes
  kallsyms: remove print_symbol() function
  checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning
  symbol lookup: introduce dereference_symbol_descriptor()
  parisc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  powerpc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  ia64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  sections: split dereference_function_descriptor()
  openrisc: Fix conflicting types for _exext and _stext
  lib: do not use print_symbol()
  irq debug: do not use print_symbol()
  sysfs: do not use print_symbol()
  drivers: do not use print_symbol()
  x86: do not use print_symbol()
  unicore32: do not use print_symbol()
  sh: do not use print_symbol()
  mn10300: do not use print_symbol()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Add a console_msg_format command line option:

     The value "default" keeps the old "[time stamp] text\n" format. The
     value "syslog" allows to see the syslog-like "&lt;log
     level&gt;[timestamp] text" format.

     This feature was requested by people doing regression tests, for
     example, 0day robot. They want to have both filtered and full logs
     at hands.

 - Reduce the risk of softlockup:

     Pass the console owner in a busy loop.

     This is a new approach to the old problem. It was first proposed by
     Steven Rostedt on Kernel Summit 2017. It marks a context in which
     the console_lock owner calls console drivers and could not sleep.
     On the other side, printk() callers could detect this state and use
     a busy wait instead of a simple console_trylock(). Finally, the
     console_lock owner checks if there is a busy waiter at the end of
     the special context and eventually passes the console_lock to the
     waiter.

     The hand-off works surprisingly well and helps in many situations.
     Well, there is still a possibility of the softlockup, for example,
     when the flood of messages stops and the last owner still has too
     much to flush.

     There is increasing number of people having problems with
     printk-related softlockups. We might eventually need to get better
     solution. Anyway, this looks like a good start and promising
     direction.

 - Do not allow to schedule in console_unlock() called from printk():

     This reverts an older controversial commit. The reschedule helped
     to avoid softlockups. But it also slowed down the console output.
     This patch is obsoleted by the new console waiter logic described
     above. In fact, the reschedule made the hand-off less effective.

 - Deprecate "%pf" and "%pF" format specifier:

     It was needed on ia64, ppc64 and parisc64 to dereference function
     descriptors and show the real function address. It is done
     transparently by "%ps" and "pS" format specifier now.

     Sergey Senozhatsky found that all the function descriptors were in
     a special elf section and could be easily detected.

 - Remove printk_symbol() API:

     It has been obsoleted by "%pS" format specifier, and this change
     helped to remove few continuous lines and a less intuitive old API.

 - Remove redundant memsets:

     Sergey removed unnecessary memset when processing printk.devkmsg
     command line option.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk: (27 commits)
  printk: drop redundant devkmsg_log_str memsets
  printk: Never set console_may_schedule in console_trylock()
  printk: Hide console waiter logic into helpers
  printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes
  kallsyms: remove print_symbol() function
  checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning
  symbol lookup: introduce dereference_symbol_descriptor()
  parisc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  powerpc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  ia64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  sections: split dereference_function_descriptor()
  openrisc: Fix conflicting types for _exext and _stext
  lib: do not use print_symbol()
  irq debug: do not use print_symbol()
  sysfs: do not use print_symbol()
  drivers: do not use print_symbol()
  x86: do not use print_symbol()
  unicore32: do not use print_symbol()
  sh: do not use print_symbol()
  mn10300: do not use print_symbol()
  ...
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