linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] printk: inject caller information into the body of message

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Message-ID: <20180620130628.GA1000@tigerII.localdomain>
Date:   Wed, 20 Jun 2018 22:06:28 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
To:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: inject caller information into the body of
 message

On (06/20/18 13:32), Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> > So, if we could get rid of pr_cont() from the most important parts
> > (instruction dumps, etc) then I would just vote to leave pr_cont()
> > alone and avoid any handling of it in printk context tracking. Simply
> > because we wouldn't care about pr_cont(). This also could simplify
> > Tetsuo's patch significantly.
> 
> Sounds good to me.

Awesome. If you and Fengguang can combine forces and lead the
whole thing towards "we couldn't care of pr_cont() less", it
would be really huuuuuge. Go for it!

	-ss