printk/nbcon: Change nbcon_irq_work to IRQ_WORK_LAZY

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Change the nbcon_irq_work to be IRQ_WORK_LAZY, thus not raising
an IRQ upon irq_work queuing. The irq_work is then handled on the
next kernel tick. This additional delay is acceptable because
nbcon_irq_work is only responsible for non-emergency deferred
printing, which is delayed anyway. This has the benefit of not
needing to raise an IRQ for each printk() call.

On a side note, the Tegra20 and Tegra30 platforms can hang if an
irq_work IRQ is raised while entering cpuidle states. This problem
was reproducible by calling printk() while entering cpuidle. So
this change also provides a workaround for these platforms (as long
as they are not running tickless).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/f3757a75-0ba1-4558-bf57-f19ab7e59a4c@nvidia.com
Fixes: 76f258bf3f ("printk: nbcon: Introduce printer kthreads")
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260901093245.344455-3-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>

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John Ogness 2026-09-01 11:37:43 +02:06 • committed by Petr Mladek

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