From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>, Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>,
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: printk: what is going on with additional newlines?
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 11:09:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1504030160.2040.35.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFwzS=YakV+8uJHAXak5BEuQtpKSnabYWxicK+io9-1Bzg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2017-08-29 at 10:52 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Sergey Senozhatsky
> <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > ok. that's something several people asked for -- some sort of buffered
> > printk mode; but people don't want to use a buffer allocated on the stack
> > (or kmalloc-ed, etc.) to do sprintf() on it and then feed it to printk("%s"),
> > because this adds some extra cost:
>
> I don't like the notion of per-cpu buffers either, because then you
> suddenly get atomicity issues, and you really don't want that.
>
> My preference as a user is actually to just have a dynamically
> re-sizable buffer (that's pretty much what I've done in *every* single
> user space project I've had in the last decade), but because some
> users might have atomicity issues I do suspect that we should just use
> a stack buffer.
>
> And then perhaps say that the buffer size has to be capped at 80 characters.
>
> Because if you're printing more than 80 characters and expecting it
> all to fit on a line, you're doing something else wrong anyway.
>
> And hide it not as a explicit "char buffer[80]]" allocation, but as a
> "struct line_buffer" or similar, so that
>
> (a) people don't get the line size wrong
>
> (b) the buffering code can add a few fields for length etc in there too
>
> Introduce a few helper functions for it:
>
> init_line_buffer(&buf);
> print_line(&buf, fmt, args);
> vprint_line(&buf, fmt, vararg);
> finish_line(&buf);
>
> or whatever, and it sounds like it should be pretty easy to use.
Mostly true and not a new solution.
You'll now need to add &buf to called functions that
continue individual line output.
Tejun Heo suggested the very similar mprintk back in 2008.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/27199
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-29 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-15 2:56 [RFC][PATCHv5 00/13] printk: introduce printing kernel thread Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-15 2:56 ` [RFC][PATCHv5 01/13] printk: move printk_pending out of per-cpu Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-15 2:56 ` [RFC][PATCHv5 02/13] printk: introduce printing kernel thread Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-15 2:56 ` [RFC][PATCHv5 03/13] printk: add sync printk_emergency API Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-15 2:56 ` [RFC][PATCHv5 04/13] printk: add enforce_emergency parameter Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-15 2:56 ` [RFC][PATCHv5 05/13] printk: enable printk offloading Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-15 2:56 ` [RFC][PATCHv5 06/13] printk: register PM notifier Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-15 11:51 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-08-16 7:31 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-16 12:58 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-08-17 5:55 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-17 15:43 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-08-17 23:19 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-15 2:56 ` [RFC][PATCHv5 07/13] printk: register syscore notifier Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-15 11:56 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-08-16 6:55 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-16 12:59 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-08-15 2:56 ` [RFC][PATCHv5 08/13] printk: set watchdog_thresh as maximum value for atomic_print_limit Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-15 2:56 ` [RFC][PATCHv5 09/13] printk: add auto-emergency enforcement mechanism Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-15 2:56 ` [RFC][PATCHv5 10/13] printk: force printk_kthread to offload printing Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-15 2:56 ` [RFC][PATCHv5 11/13] printk: always offload printing from user-space processes Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-15 2:56 ` [RFC][PATCHv5 12/13] printk: do not cond_resched() when we can offload Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-15 2:56 ` [RFC][PATCHv5 13/13] printk: move offloading logic to per-cpu Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-23 8:33 ` [RFC][PATCHv5 00/13] printk: introduce printing kernel thread Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-28 9:05 ` printk: what is going on with additional newlines? Pavel Machek
2017-08-28 10:28 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-28 12:21 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-28 12:38 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-28 12:46 ` Pavel Machek
2017-08-29 13:40 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-29 16:37 ` Joe Perches
2017-08-29 17:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-29 17:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-29 20:41 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-08-29 20:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-09-02 6:12 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-09-02 17:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-29 23:50 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-08-29 23:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-30 1:03 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-30 1:10 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-08-30 1:51 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-30 1:52 ` Joe Perches
2017-08-30 2:25 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-30 2:31 ` Joe Perches
2017-08-30 2:47 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-30 2:58 ` Joe Perches
2017-08-30 5:37 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-09-08 10:18 ` Pavel Machek
2017-09-05 9:44 ` Petr Mladek
2017-09-05 9:59 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-09-05 12:21 ` Petr Mladek
2017-09-05 12:35 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-09-05 14:18 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-09-05 13:42 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-09-06 7:55 ` Petr Mladek
2017-09-17 6:26 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-09-17 9:27 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-09-17 15:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-09-18 0:46 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-09-18 2:22 ` Joe Perches
2017-09-18 2:41 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-09-18 2:45 ` Joe Perches
2017-09-18 2:55 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-09-18 3:07 ` Joe Perches
2017-09-18 4:42 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-09-01 13:19 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-09-01 17:32 ` Joe Perches
2017-09-01 20:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-09-04 5:22 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-09-04 5:41 ` Joe Perches
2017-09-05 14:54 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-09-06 2:14 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-09-06 2:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-09-04 4:30 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-09-04 5:24 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-29 17:33 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-29 17:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-29 18:09 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2017-08-30 1:07 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-30 0:58 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-08-29 16:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-29 17:10 ` Joe Perches
2017-08-29 17:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-29 17:33 ` Joe Perches
2017-08-29 17:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-29 17:48 ` Joe Perches
2017-08-29 20:24 ` Pavel Machek
2017-09-01 1:40 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-09-01 2:04 ` Joe Perches
2017-09-01 6:59 ` Pavel Machek
2017-09-01 7:23 ` Joe Perches
2017-09-01 7:29 ` Pavel Machek
2017-09-01 11:13 ` Steven Rostedt
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