On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 10:52:18PM +0000, Steven Honeyman wrote: > dmesg (from util-linux) currently has two methods for reading the kernel > message ring buffer: /dev/kmsg and syslog(2). Since kernel 3.5.0 kmsg has > been the default, which escapes control characters (e.g. new lines) before > they are shown. > > This change means that when dmesg is using /dev/kmsg, a 2 line printk makes > the output messy, because the second line does not get a timestamp. > For example: > > [ 0.012863] CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM1) > [ 0.012869] Last level iTLB entries: 4KB 1024, 2MB 1024, 4MB 1024 > Last level dTLB entries: 4KB 1024, 2MB 1024, 4MB 1024, 1GB 4 > [ 0.012958] Freeing SMP alternatives memory: 28K (ffffffff81d86000 - > ffffffff81d8d000) > [ 0.014961] dmar: Host address width 39 > > Because printk.c intentionally escapes control characters, they should not be > there in the first place. > This patch fixes two occurrences of this. > > V2: Revert change to log level, only fix the newline formatting issue > V3: Expand patch description > V3b: Fix silly mistake (log level) > > Signed-off-by: Steven Honeyman <stevenhoney...@gmail.com>
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