printk inside an interrupt handler , is it really that bad?
问题 everybody knows that interrupt handler should be short as possible. and adding functions like printk for debugging inside an interrupt handler is something that shouldn't be done. Actually, I tried it before when I was debugging the linux kernel for an interrupt driven char device I written, and it wrecked the timing of the driver. The question I have, is why this is happening ? printk function is buffered ! it means, as far as I understand that the data is inserted in to a queue, and it's