Re: printk: what is going on with additional newlines?

[Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>]

On (08/29/17 18:52), Joe Perches wrote:
[..]
> > We could simply add a seq_buf_printk() that is implemented in the printk
> > proper, to parse the seq_buf buffer properly, and add the timestamps and
> > such.
> 
> No need.  printk would already add timestamps.

the idea is not to do printk() on that seq buffer at all, but to
log_store(), atomically, seq buffer messages

	spin_lock(&logbuf_lock)
	while (offset < seq_buffer->len) {
		...
		log_store(seq->buffer + offset);
		...
	}
	spin_unlock(&logbuf_unlock)

	-ss