On Sun, 2012-07-08 at 19:55 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > At the same time the CPU#2 prints the same warning with a continuation > line, but the buffer from CPU#1 can not be flushed to the console, nor > can the continuation line printk()s from CPU#2 be merged at this point. > The consoles are still locked and busy with replaying the old log > messages, so the new continuation data is just stored away in the record > buffer as it is coming in. > If the console would be registered a bit earlier, or the warning would > happen a bit later, we would probably not see any of this. > > I can fake something like this just by holding the console semaphore > over a longer time and printing continuation lines with different CPUs > in a row. > > The patch below seems to work for me. It is also here: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kay/patches.git;a=blob;f=kmsg-merge-cont.patch;hb=HEAD > > It only applies cleanly on top of this patch: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kay/patches.git;a=blob;f=kmsg-syslog-1-byte-read.patch;hb=HEAD >
Hi Kay. I just ran a test with what's in Greg's driver-core -for-linus branch. One of the differences in dmesg is timestamping of consecutive pr_<level>("foo...) followed directly by pr_cont("bar...") For instance: (dmesg is 3.4, dmesg.0 is 3.5-rc6+) # grep MAP /var/log/dm* -A1 dmesg:[ 0.781687] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ P0 P2 P1 P3 ] dmesg-[ 0.781707] ata2: port disabled--ignoring -- dmesg.0:[ 0.948881] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ dmesg.0-[ 0.948883] P0 P2 P1 P3 ] These messages originate starting at drivers/ata/ata_piix.c:1354 All the continuations are emitted with pr_cont. I think this output should still be coalesced without timestamp deltas. Perhaps the timestamping code can still be reworked to avoid too small a delta producing a new timestamp and another dmesg line. cheers, Joe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/