On Wed, 2020-05-20 at 21:10 +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > On (20/05/19 21:58), Joe Perches wrote: > [..] > > > Maybe we can > > > use here something rather random and much shorter instead. E.g. > > > 256 chars. Hmm. How > > > > min(some_max like 132/256, PRINTK_LOG_LINE_MAX) > > > > would work. > > An alternative approach would be to do what we do in the > print_modules() (the list of modules which can definitely > be longer than 1K chars). > > We can split command line in a loop - memchr(pos, ' ') - and > pr_cont() parts of the command line. pr_cont() has overflow > control and it flushes cont buffer before it overflows, so > we should not lose anything.
It doesn't matter much here, but I believe there's an 8k max buffer for pr_cont output. include/linux/printk.h:#define CONSOLE_EXT_LOG_MAX 8192 Anyway, no worries, it simplifies the loop if done that way.

