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From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Calvin Owens <calvinowens@fb.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv7 4/8] printk: always use deferred printk when flush printk_safe lines
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 13:16:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170206121652.GA2769@pathway.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170206020820.GB1750@jagdpanzerIV.localdomain>

On Mon 2017-02-06 11:08:20, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (02/06/17 10:48), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> [..]
> > from many places:
> > 
> >   4x   printk_safe_flush_buffer()
> >   1x   __printk_safe_flush()
> > 
> > 
> > replacing printk_safe_flush_line() with printk_deferred() produces things
> > like these
> > 
> >                printk_deferred("%.*s", end - start, start);
> >                printk_deferred("%.*s", strlen(newline), newline);
> 
> ah... besides we need to cast length argument to "int".

Good point.


> > just in case, the patch (which I prefer to be ignored)
> 
> let's keep printk_safe_flush_line().

I do not have strong opinion but I would slightly prefer
to keep the helper function. The use of printk_deferred()
is a bit tricky and it is better to have only one copy.

Steven, could you live with the original patch, please?

Best Regards,
Petr

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-06 12:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-27 14:16 [PATCHv7 0/8] printk: use printk_safe to handle printk() recursive calls Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-12-27 14:16 ` [PATCHv7 1/8] printk: use vprintk_func in vprintk() Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-12-27 14:16 ` [PATCHv7 2/8] printk: rename nmi.c and exported api Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-01-04 13:07   ` Petr Mladek
2017-02-01 15:48   ` Steven Rostedt
2017-02-01 15:50     ` Steven Rostedt
2017-02-23  7:50   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-02-23  8:02     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-23  9:23       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-12-27 14:16 ` [PATCHv7 3/8] printk: introduce per-cpu safe_print seq buffer Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-01-04 13:31   ` Petr Mladek
2017-01-05  1:01     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-01 15:52   ` Steven Rostedt
2016-12-27 14:16 ` [PATCHv7 4/8] printk: always use deferred printk when flush printk_safe lines Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-01 16:06   ` Steven Rostedt
2017-02-02  6:05     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-02 15:37       ` Petr Mladek
2017-02-02 15:52         ` Petr Mladek
2017-02-03  2:04           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-03 11:18             ` Petr Mladek
2017-02-06  1:48               ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-06  2:08                 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-06 12:16                   ` Petr Mladek [this message]
2017-02-06 13:27                     ` Steven Rostedt
2017-02-06 16:42                       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-06 16:55                         ` Steven Rostedt
2016-12-27 14:16 ` [PATCHv7 5/8] printk: report lost messages in printk safe/nmi contexts Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-01-04 14:46   ` Petr Mladek
2017-01-05  1:01     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-01 16:37   ` Steven Rostedt
2017-02-02  2:02     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-02 14:34       ` Steven Rostedt
2017-02-02 16:13         ` Petr Mladek
2017-02-03  1:57         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-03  3:13           ` Steven Rostedt
2016-12-27 14:16 ` [PATCHv7 6/8] printk: use printk_safe buffers in printk Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-01-31 17:27   ` Ross Zwisler
2017-02-01  9:06     ` Jan Kara
2017-02-01  9:37       ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-02-01 15:39         ` Petr Mladek
2017-02-01 16:15           ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-02-01 16:41             ` Steven Rostedt
2017-02-02  2:11           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-02  9:07             ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-02-02 10:03               ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-02 15:20                 ` Petr Mladek
2017-02-03  2:45                   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-02  1:59     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-02-01 17:04   ` Steven Rostedt
2017-02-02  2:13     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-12-27 14:16 ` [PATCHv7 7/8] printk: remove zap_locks() function Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-12-27 14:16 ` [PATCHv7 8/8] printk: convert the rest to printk-safe Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-01-04 16:28   ` Petr Mladek
2017-01-05  1:00     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-01-05 16:58 ` [PATCHv7 0/8] printk: use printk_safe to handle printk() recursive calls Petr Mladek

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