linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: page_alloc: Reduce object size by neatening printks

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Date:   Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:53:47 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: page_alloc: Reduce object size by neatening
 printks

On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 11:37:56 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:

> > this can make it harder to read, in _the worst case_. one printk()
> > guaranteed that we would see a single line in the serial log/etc.
> > the sort of a problem with multiple printks is that printks coming
> > from other CPUs will split that "previously single" line.
> 
> Not true.  Note the multiple \n uses in the original code.

hm?  Won't printk("a\na") atomically emit all three chars into the log
buffer?