From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
"Wangnan (F)" <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org"
<ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] asynchronous printk
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 11:28:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1469096925.120686.122.camel@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrUbuQjEAettvDStqEophng+1TNGDpueWDJ4QWLqiyaQ2w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 2016-07-20 at 18:16 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> If we do all this stuff, can we also try to clean up earlyprintk a
> bit? The whole earlyconsole mechanism is a mess, and switching over
> to the non-early console is only somewhat functional. I'd love to see
> this all simplified: before there's any console at all available, just
> buffer messages. Then, when a console shows up, write the buffer out.
> Then earlyprintk can work just like regular printk.
That's exactly what we already do. Look at the CON_PRINTBUFFER flag.
I never did understand why "earlyprintk" was introduced as such a nasty
special-case hack in the first place. There were various minor excuses
for doing so, but nothing insurmountable IIRC.
I would *love* to kill it completely and simplify the whole thing.
--
David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation
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Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-19 3:47 [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] asynchronous printk Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-07-19 3:56 ` Viresh Kumar
2016-07-19 6:17 ` Hannes Reinecke
2016-07-19 6:49 ` Josh Triplett
2016-07-19 7:02 ` Hannes Reinecke
2016-07-19 7:11 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-07-20 6:02 ` Jan Kara
2016-07-20 22:54 ` Josh Triplett
2016-07-21 0:46 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-07-21 1:12 ` Josh Triplett
2016-07-19 7:33 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-07-19 7:38 ` Hannes Reinecke
2016-07-19 7:46 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-07-19 8:02 ` Hannes Reinecke
2016-07-19 8:23 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-07-21 10:36 ` David Woodhouse
2016-07-21 12:31 ` Jan Kara
2016-07-28 2:55 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-20 6:09 ` Jan Kara
2016-07-19 7:46 ` Christian Borntraeger
2016-07-19 7:53 ` Christian Borntraeger
2016-07-19 13:55 ` Jan Kara
2016-07-28 2:59 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-28 4:12 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-07-28 13:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-20 3:35 ` Wangnan (F)
2016-07-21 1:16 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-21 1:52 ` Wangnan (F)
2016-07-21 5:59 ` Hannes Reinecke
2016-07-21 10:31 ` David Woodhouse
2016-07-21 11:19 ` Josh Triplett
2016-07-21 11:59 ` David Woodhouse
2016-07-21 14:21 ` Josh Triplett
2016-07-21 14:40 ` David Woodhouse
2016-07-28 3:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-08-02 11:59 ` Petr Mladek
2016-07-21 15:05 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-26 14:40 ` David Woodhouse
2016-07-26 15:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-07-26 21:00 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-27 0:03 ` David Woodhouse
2016-07-27 1:16 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-07-21 10:28 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2016-07-19 14:45 ` James Bottomley
2016-07-19 14:55 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-07-19 17:58 ` James Bottomley
2016-07-19 18:24 ` Viresh Kumar
2016-07-20 2:08 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-07-20 6:14 ` Jan Kara
2016-09-21 4:41 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-10-31 6:54 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-10-31 13:56 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-10-31 13:59 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-10-31 14:56 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] printk considered harmful (was: [TECH TOPIC] asynchronous printk) Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-10-31 16:18 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-10-31 18:21 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-10-31 18:26 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] printk considered harmful Hannes Reinecke
2016-10-31 20:28 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] printk considered harmful (was: [TECH TOPIC] asynchronous printk) Jan Kara
2016-11-01 12:27 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] printk considered harmful Hannes Reinecke
2016-11-01 17:50 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] printk considered harmful (was: [TECH TOPIC] asynchronous printk) Sergey Senozhatsky
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