diff --git a/lib/nmi_backtrace.c b/lib/nmi_backtrace.c
index 6019c53..26caf51 100644
--- a/lib/nmi_backtrace.c
+++ b/lib/nmi_backtrace.c
@@ -16,33 +16,14 @@
 #include <linux/delay.h>
 #include <linux/kprobes.h>
 #include <linux/nmi.h>
-#include <linux/seq_buf.h>
 
 #ifdef arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace
 /* For reliability, we're prepared to waste bits here. */
 static DECLARE_BITMAP(backtrace_mask, NR_CPUS) __read_mostly;
-static cpumask_t printtrace_mask;
-
-#define NMI_BUF_SIZE		4096
-
-struct nmi_seq_buf {
-	unsigned char		buffer[NMI_BUF_SIZE];
-	struct seq_buf		seq;
-};
-
-/* Safe printing in NMI context */
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct nmi_seq_buf, nmi_print_seq);
 
 /* "in progress" flag of arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace */
 static unsigned long backtrace_flag;
 
-static void print_seq_line(struct nmi_seq_buf *s, int start, int end)
-{
-	const char *buf = s->buffer + start;
-
-	printk("%.*s", (end - start) + 1, buf);
-}
-
 /*
  * When raise() is called it will be is passed a pointer to the
  * backtrace_mask. Architectures that call nmi_cpu_backtrace()
@@ -52,8 +33,7 @@
 void nmi_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace(bool include_self,
 				   void (*raise)(cpumask_t *mask))
 {
-	struct nmi_seq_buf *s;
-	int i, cpu, this_cpu = get_cpu();
+	int i, this_cpu = get_cpu();
 
 	if (test_and_set_bit(0, &backtrace_flag)) {
 		/*
@@ -68,17 +48,6 @@
 	if (!include_self)
 		cpumask_clear_cpu(this_cpu, to_cpumask(backtrace_mask));
 
-	cpumask_copy(&printtrace_mask, to_cpumask(backtrace_mask));
-
-	/*
-	 * Set up per_cpu seq_buf buffers that the NMIs running on the other
-	 * CPUs will write to.
-	 */
-	for_each_cpu(cpu, to_cpumask(backtrace_mask)) {
-		s = &per_cpu(nmi_print_seq, cpu);
-		seq_buf_init(&s->seq, s->buffer, NMI_BUF_SIZE);
-	}
-
 	if (!cpumask_empty(to_cpumask(backtrace_mask))) {
 		pr_info("Sending NMI to %s CPUs:\n",
 			(include_self ? "all" : "other"));
@@ -94,73 +63,25 @@
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * Now that all the NMIs have triggered, we can dump out their
-	 * back traces safely to the console.
+	 * Force flush any remote buffers that might be stuck in IRQ context
+	 * and therefore could not run their irq_work.
 	 */
-	for_each_cpu(cpu, &printtrace_mask) {
-		int len, last_i = 0;
+	printk_nmi_flush();
 
-		s = &per_cpu(nmi_print_seq, cpu);
-		len = seq_buf_used(&s->seq);
-		if (!len)
-			continue;
-
-		/* Print line by line. */
-		for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
-			if (s->buffer[i] == '\n') {
-				print_seq_line(s, last_i, i);
-				last_i = i + 1;
-			}
-		}
-		/* Check if there was a partial line. */
-		if (last_i < len) {
-			print_seq_line(s, last_i, len - 1);
-			pr_cont("\n");
-		}
-	}
-
-	clear_bit(0, &backtrace_flag);
-	smp_mb__after_atomic();
+	clear_bit_unlock(0, &backtrace_flag);
 	put_cpu();
 }
 
-/*
- * It is not safe to call printk() directly from NMI handlers.
- * It may be fine if the NMI detected a lock up and we have no choice
- * but to do so, but doing a NMI on all other CPUs to get a back trace
- * can be done with a sysrq-l. We don't want that to lock up, which
- * can happen if the NMI interrupts a printk in progress.
- *
- * Instead, we redirect the vprintk() to this nmi_vprintk() that writes
- * the content into a per cpu seq_buf buffer. Then when the NMIs are
- * all done, we can safely dump the contents of the seq_buf to a printk()
- * from a non NMI context.
- */
-static int nmi_vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
-{
-	struct nmi_seq_buf *s = this_cpu_ptr(&nmi_print_seq);
-	unsigned int len = seq_buf_used(&s->seq);
-
-	seq_buf_vprintf(&s->seq, fmt, args);
-	return seq_buf_used(&s->seq) - len;
-}
-
 bool nmi_cpu_backtrace(struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
 
 	if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, to_cpumask(backtrace_mask))) {
-		printk_func_t printk_func_save = this_cpu_read(printk_func);
-
-		/* Replace printk to write into the NMI seq */
-		this_cpu_write(printk_func, nmi_vprintk);
 		pr_warn("NMI backtrace for cpu %d\n", cpu);
 		if (regs)
 			show_regs(regs);
 		else
 			dump_stack();
-		this_cpu_write(printk_func, printk_func_save);
-
 		cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, to_cpumask(backtrace_mask));
 		return true;
 	}