linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] sched/debug: fix per-task line continuation for console

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Date:   Tue, 20 Mar 2018 09:08:52 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] sched/debug: fix per-task line continuation for
 console

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 04:43:28PM -0400, Joe Lawrence wrote:
> On 03/19/2018 04:17 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> I don't have the commit offhand that changed the printk behavior, but
> from observation:

4bcc595ccd80 ("printk: reinstate KERN_CONT for printing continuation lines")

and thereabout I think.

> > Does pr_cont("\n") DTRT? it seems like something weird.
> > 
> 
> Yeah, pr_cont() is kind of a hack.  It will terminate a line if that's
> the first newline, but as demonstrated above, I don't think it likes
> extra newline chars.

Fair enough I suppose, just a bit weird.

> A better fix would be to marshal the text into temp buffer then dump it
> out.  Dunno if you prefer that kind of churn for these stats.

Yeah, not worth it, simple is better here.