linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] printk/console: Do not suppress information about dropped messages

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Date:   Mon, 4 Mar 2019 12:33:00 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc:     John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk/console: Do not suppress information about
 dropped messages

On (02/27/19 09:30), Petr Mladek wrote:
> Good point! There is a simple fix for this. We could print the warning
> also when all messages are proceed and we are about to leave
> the for-cycle.

I'd prefer to have lost-messages reporting be less of a summary
and more of an "error". I think the sooner we report it the better.
I don't think that the time we need to print lost-messages on the
consoles is significant enough to worry about it; if call_console_drivers()
becomes such a problem that any extra char we print causes message-drop then
we can disable printk_time or/and printk caller_id prefix printout (can
save us more CPU cycles).

	-ss