linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv7 4/8] printk: always use deferred printk when flush printk

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Date:   Mon, 6 Feb 2017 11:08:20 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
Cc:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Calvin Owens <calvinowens@...com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv7 4/8] printk: always use deferred printk when flush
 printk_safe lines

On (02/06/17 10:48), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
[..]
> from many places:
> 
>   4x   printk_safe_flush_buffer()
>   1x   __printk_safe_flush()
> 
> 
> replacing printk_safe_flush_line() with printk_deferred() produces things
> like these
> 
>                printk_deferred("%.*s", end - start, start);
>                printk_deferred("%.*s", strlen(newline), newline);

ah... besides we need to cast length argument to "int".


> just in case, the patch (which I prefer to be ignored)

let's keep printk_safe_flush_line().

	-ss