printk: robustify printk, update comment

Remove the comment describing the possibility of printk() deadlocking on
runqueue lock.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index 57e9cd7a95814c51a939421691031ca2dbae22e9..6f27c6a4bdc97a0f384ef4605469f22b1bd95b08 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -577,9 +577,6 @@ static int have_callable_console(void)
  * @fmt: format string
  *
  * This is printk().  It can be called from any context.  We want it to work.
- * Be aware of the fact that if oops_in_progress is not set, we might try to
- * wake klogd up which could deadlock on runqueue lock if printk() is called
- * from scheduler code.
  *
  * We try to grab the console_sem.  If we succeed, it's easy - we log the output and
  * call the console drivers.  If we fail to get the semaphore we place the output