printk: Avoid false positive lockdep report for legacy printing
Legacy console printing from printk() caller context may invoke the console driver from atomic context. This leads to a lockdep splat because the console driver will acquire a sleeping lock and the caller may already hold a spinning lock. This is noticed by lockdep on !PREEMPT_RT configurations because it will lead to a problem on PREEMPT_RT. However, on PREEMPT_RT the printing path from atomic context is always avoided and the console driver is always invoked from a dedicated thread. Thus the lockdep splat on !PREEMPT_RT is a false positive. For !PREEMPT_RT override the lock-context before invoking the console driver to avoid the false positive. Do not override the lock-context for PREEMPT_RT in order to allow lockdep to catch any real locking context issues related to the write callback usage. Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240904120536.115780-18-john.ogness@linutronix.deSigned-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
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