[PATCH v5 4/4] printk: use the lockless ringbuffer

Sergey Senozhatsky sergey.senozhatsky at gmail.com
Mon Jul 20 04:34:20 EDT 2020


On (20/07/20 08:43), Marco Elver wrote:
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> please see a full list of newline-print users below.
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> $> git grep -En '\<(printk|pr_err|pr_warn|pr_info)\>\("\\n"\)'
> arch/alpha/kernel/core_wildfire.c:650:	printk("\n");
> arch/alpha/kernel/core_wildfire.c:658:	printk("\n");
> arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c:120:	printk("\n");
[..]

In many cases printk("\n") is not for "print a blank line", but
rather for "flush pr_cont buffer".

	-ss



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