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SubjectRe: Printk mulitple line message support
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On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 22:40 +0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 14:58 +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In most cases, printk only guarantees messages from different printk
> > calling will not be interleaved between each other. But many printk
> > users uses multiple line to form a complete message and call printk
> > for each line. So the following situation is possible for two printk
> > users running on two CPUs.
> >
> > line 1 of message from printk user1
> > line 1 of message from printk user2
> > line 2 of message from printk user1
> > line 2 of message from printk user2
> >
> > This makes kernel log hard to read. One possible solution to this
> > issue is to give a sequence number (or ID) to each complete message.
> > So the above lines will be:
> >
> > {1}line 1 of message from printk user1
> > {2}line 1 of message from printk user2
> > {1}line 2 of message from printk user1
> > {2}line 2 of message from printk user2
> >
> > Then some simple script can be used to group lines together according
> > to sequence number in lines.
> >
> > What do you think about that?
>
> This makes the typical multi-part but non-interleaved
> output difficult to read.

With a simple script, we can strip out the sequence # easily.

> How about determining if there is interleaving and
> emitting sequence # only in those cases?
>
> Perhaps test the atomic for the last sequence #.

So we will have no sequence # prefix for printk user1's lines if printk
user 2 comes in the middle? Something as follow?

line 1 of message from printk user1
{2}line 1 of message from printk user2
line 2 of message from printk user1
{2}line 2 of message from printk user2

This will make it hard for a script to sort the lines. Where should it
insert lines from printk user2 in the sort result?

Best Regards,
Huang Ying




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