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    printk: remove outdated comment · ca1d432a
    Jan Kara authored
    Comment about interesting interlocking between lockbuf_lock and
    console_sem is outdated.
    
    It was added in 2002 by commit a880f45a during conversion of
    console_lock to console_sem + lockbuf_lock.
    
    At that time release_console_sem() (today's equivalent is
    console_unlock()) was indeed using lockbuf_lock to avoid races between
    trylock on console_sem in printk() and unlock of console_sem.  However
    these days the interlocking is gone and the races are avoided by
    rechecking logbuf state after releasing console_sem.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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