Re: [PATCH_V2 1/2] fix the bug that printk can't support printk(KERN_LEVEL)

[Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>]

On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 09:36 +0800, he, bo wrote:
> From: he bo <bo.he@intel.com>
> 
> Usually, there is a special scenario that developer wants to
> call printk to just set up a log level (might be transferred
> here as a parameter from upper level), then, later calling
> of printk prints out real string with the same log level
> continuously.
The patch fixes a real issue. See the function.

static void print_trace_address(void *data, unsigned long addr, int reliable)
{
        touch_nmi_watchdog();
        printk(data);		<============= Here is to print the log level only
        printk_address(addr, reliable);
}

Without the patch, printk(data) doesn't emit the log level,
so printk_address would use the default log level.

Besides above real issue, developer might write below codes to debug issues.
printk("%s", log_level);
for (i = 0; i < fields; i++) {
	printk("one field");
}
I did so years ago and felt weird why the log level was incorrect. :)

> 
> Current function vprintk has an issue to support this capability.
> When the whole string in one calling to printk is just a log level,
> it ignores it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: he, bo <bo.he@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
> ---
>  kernel/printk.c |    7 ++++---
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
> index b663c2c..473afdb 100644
> --- a/kernel/printk.c
> +++ b/kernel/printk.c
> @@ -909,7 +909,7 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
>  	 * Copy the output into log_buf. If the caller didn't provide
>  	 * the appropriate log prefix, we insert them here
>  	 */
> -	for (; *p; p++) {
> +	for (; plen || *p; p++) {
>  		if (new_text_line) {
>  			new_text_line = 0;
>  
> @@ -920,6 +920,7 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
>  				for (i = 0; i < plen; i++)
>  					emit_log_char(printk_buf[i]);
>  				printed_len += plen;
> +				plen = 0;
>  			} else {
>  				/* Add log prefix */
>  				emit_log_char('<');
> @@ -946,10 +947,10 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
>  				printed_len += tlen;
>  			}
>  
> -			if (!*p)
> -				break;
>  		}
>  
> +		if (!*p)
> +			break;
>  		emit_log_char(*p);
>  		if (*p == '\n')
>  			new_text_line = 1;