Hi!
On Mon 2017-08-28 21:21:09, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (08/28/17 19:28), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > On (08/28/17 11:05), Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > In 4.13-rc, printk("foo"); printk("bar"); seems to produce
> > > foo\nbar. That's... quite surprising/unwelcome. What is going on
> > > there? Are timestamps responsible?
> >
> > well, one thing we know for sure it is not related to this patch set ;)
> >
> >
> > does any of the below patches fix the problem for you?
> >
> > basically it sets up the rule -- if we don't have LOG_NEWLINE lflags
> > then we enforce LOG_CONT.
>
> [..]
>
> > @@ -1670,7 +1670,9 @@ static size_t log_output(int facility, int level,
> > enum log_flags lflags, const c
> > * write from the same process, try to add it to the buffer.
> > */
> > if (cont.len) {
> > if (cont.owner == current && (lflags & LOG_CONT)) {
>
>
> on the other hand... I don't think I like that check at all.
> so I *probably* want to change it to -- !LOG_NEWLINE messages of the
> same loglevel AND from the same task are getting concatenated.
> a message with LOG_NEWLINE flushes the cont buffer.
Looks good to me.
> for example:
>
> printk("foo"); printk("foo"); printk("bar\n");
This behaviour is important for me... and this sounds ok.
> printk("buz"); printk("buz"); printk("buz"); pr_info("INFO msg\n");
> printk("buz"); printk("buz"); printk("buz"); pr_err("ERR msg\n");
> printk(KERN_CONT"foo"); printk(KERN_CONT"foo");
> printk(KERN_CONT"bar\n");
> printk(KERN_CONT"foo"); printk(KERN_CONT"foo");
> printk(KERN_ERR"bar\n");
> printk(KERN_CONT"foo"); printk(KERN_ERR"foo err"); printk(KERN_ERR"bar
> err\n");
>
>
> for instance,
> printk(KERN_ERR"foo err"); printk(KERN_ERR"bar err\n");
>
> should produce "foo errbar err\n". from the same task and of
> the same loglevel, no new line. must be cont messages with a missing
> KERN_CONT. right?
Not sure. Historically it produce foo err<9>bar err\n. Concatening is
probably okay.
> how about something like this?
Umm.. No?
printk(KERN_INFO "foo"); printk(KERN_CONT "bar\n");
should produce "foobar\n", right? Will not your patch insert newline
there?
Pavel
> diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
> index fc47863f629c..675febf84dc8 100644
> --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
> +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
> @@ -1670,10 +1670,9 @@ static size_t log_output(int facility, int level, enum
> log_flags lflags, const c
> * write from the same process, try to add it to the buffer.
> */
> if (cont.len) {
> - if (cont.owner == current && (lflags & LOG_CONT)) {
> + if (cont.owner == current && cont.level == level)
> if (cont_add(facility, level, lflags, text, text_len))
> return text_len;
> - }
> /* Otherwise, make sure it's flushed */
> cont_flush();
> }
>
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