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Message-Id: <1405606151-19875-3-git-send-email-elder@linaro.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 09:09:07 -0500
From: Alex Elder <elder@...aro.org>
To: akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc: pmladek@...e.cz, bp@...e.de, john.stultz@...aro.org, jack@...e.cz,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/6] printk: LOG_CONT and LOG_NEWLINE are opposites
Two log record flags--LOG_CONT and LOG_NEWLINE--are mutually
exclusive. That is, one or the other is always set, but they are
never both set at the same time in a log record flags field. What
follows is a great deal of explanation that aims to prove this
assertion.
Having that knowledge allows us to simplify a bit of logic, and with
a little more work (in follow-on patches) it allows us to do without
some flag values, considerably simplifying things.
Log record flags are held in the "cont" continuation buffer, as well
as in "syslog_prev" and "console_prev". Those are discussed later.
Other than that, log record flags are only set in log_store():
msg->flags = flags & 0x1f;
There are 5 places log_store() is called: twice from cont_flush();
and three times from vprintk_emit().
Only two single-flag values are ever passed to cont_flush():
LOG_CONT; and LOG_NEWLINE. That passed-in value is provided to
log_store() either as-is, or modified to include LOG_NOCONS. There
are thus four possible flag combinations supplied to log_store() by
cont_flush(): LOG_CONT; LOG_NEWLINE; LOG_CONT|LOG_NOCONS; or
LOG_NEWLINE|LOG_NOCONS.
The first call vprintk_emit() makes to log_store() passes a flags
value of LOG_PREFIX|LOG_NEWLINE. The second and third calls pass a
locally-computed "lflags" value, possibly with LOG_CONT added. The
only possible flag combinations held in "lflags" are: 0;
LOG_NEWLINE; LOG_PREFIX; or LOG_NEWLINE|LOG_PREFIX. If LOG_NEWLINE
is not set, LOG_CONT flag is added in the call to log_store(). So
there are four possible flag combinations supplied by cont_flush():
LOG_CONT; LOG_NEWLINE; LOG_PREFIX|LOG_CONT; or LOG_PREFIX|LOG_NEWLINE.
Therefore log_store() is never provided (so never records) a flag
value that contains both LOG_CONT and LOG_NEWLINE, and one of those
flags is always present.
Meanwhile, the "cont" flags field is only ever assigned value 0, or
a value passed to cont_flush(). The value of cont.flags is only
ever *used* if cont.flushed is true, and that only gets set after
the cont.flags field is assigned to the value passed to
cont_flush(). As mentioned above, cont_flush() is never provided
more than one flag value, and it's always either LOG_NEWLINE
or LOG_CONT. Therefore, for all intents and purposes, cont.flags
only ever holds LOG_NEWLINE or LOG_CONT.
The only values assigned to "syslog_prev" and "console_prev" are the
initial value LOG_NEWLINE or the flags value from a log record. So
none of these ever hold LOG_CONT and LOG_NEWLINE at the same time.
This proves that at LOG_CONT and LOG_NEWLINE are in fact mutually
exclusive flags.
This patch makes the following changes:
- Changes two spots in msg_print_txt() so they no longer bother
checking for LOG_NEWLINE once its known that LOG_CONT is set.
- Changes two |= assignments in vprintk_emit() to be simple
assignments instead, because the result is known to be the
same and it makes it obvious no other flags are involved.
- Assigns LOG_CONT to "lflags" in vprintk_emit() if it does not
contain LOG_NEWLINE (rather than just adding it at the time
of the call to log_store()).
- Adds a short explanatory comment.
- Explicitly pass NULL rather than "dict" (and 0 as its length)
to log_store() in one spot in vprintk_emit(), because we know
the value of dict at that point is always NULL.
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@...aro.org>
---
kernel/printk/printk.c | 23 +++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index ff1c7ad..1ee1862 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -1006,11 +1006,9 @@ static size_t msg_print_text(const struct printk_log *msg, enum log_flags prev,
prefix = false;
if (msg->flags & LOG_CONT) {
- if ((prev & LOG_CONT) && !(prev & LOG_NEWLINE))
+ if (prev & LOG_CONT)
prefix = false;
-
- if (!(msg->flags & LOG_NEWLINE))
- newline = false;
+ newline = false;
}
do {
@@ -1639,10 +1637,16 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk_emit(int facility, int level,
text_len += vscnprintf(text + text_len,
sizeof(textbuf) - text_len, fmt, args);
- /* mark and strip a trailing newline */
+ /*
+ * If there's a trailing newline, flag it and strip it off.
+ * Otherwise we assume this is a partial log message, to be
+ * continued with the next call.
+ */
if (text_len && text[text_len-1] == '\n') {
text_len--;
- lflags |= LOG_NEWLINE;
+ lflags = LOG_NEWLINE;
+ } else {
+ lflags = LOG_CONT;
}
/* strip kernel syslog prefix and extract log level or control flags */
@@ -1672,7 +1676,7 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk_emit(int facility, int level,
level = default_message_loglevel;
if (dict)
- lflags |= LOG_PREFIX|LOG_NEWLINE;
+ lflags = LOG_PREFIX|LOG_NEWLINE;
if (!(lflags & LOG_NEWLINE)) {
/*
@@ -1686,9 +1690,8 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk_emit(int facility, int level,
if (cont_add(facility, level, text, text_len))
printed_len += text_len;
else
- printed_len += log_store(facility, level,
- lflags | LOG_CONT, 0,
- dict, dictlen, text, text_len);
+ printed_len += log_store(facility, level, lflags, 0,
+ NULL, 0, text, text_len);
} else {
bool stored = false;
--
1.9.1
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