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    lib/vsprintf: Remove atomic-unsafe support for %pCr · ea0ac01f
    Geert Uytterhoeven authored
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    "%pCr" formats the current rate of a clock, and calls clk_get_rate().
    The latter obtains a mutex, hence it must not be called from atomic
    context.
    
    Remove support for this rarely-used format, as vsprintf() (and e.g.
    printk()) must be callable from any context.
    
    Any remaining out-of-tree users will start seeing the clock's name
    printed instead of its rate.
    
    Reported-by: default avatarJia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
    Fixes: 900cca29 ("lib/vsprintf: add %pC{,n,r} format specifiers for clocks")
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1527845302-12159-5-git-send-email-geert+renesas@glider.be
    
    
    To: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
    To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
    To: Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com>
    To: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
    To: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
    To: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>
    To: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
    To: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>
    To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
    Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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    Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.1+
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGeert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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