Re: [PATCH v2] x86: fix output of show_stack_log_lvl()

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Fri, 2015-02-20 at 09:52 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Feb 20, 2015 9:40 AM, "Joe Perches" <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> >
> > There are still a few dozen uses of this pattern:
> >
> >         pr_info("Some message line 1\nNext line: ");
> >         for (...)
> >                 pr_cont(" part %d", i);
> >         pr_cont('\n");
> 
> That, btw, is a buglet anyway.
> 
> We don't really support newlines in the middle of printouts any more. We
> used to, but it for deprecated. It doesn't really work with the "printk is
> a message packet" model.
> 
> Admittedly neither does the "pr_cont()" model, but pr_cont() is
> fundamentally useful, in a way that newlines in the middle are not (they
> can always just be split up, while the pr_cont() cannot generally be
> combined).
> 
> So we should generally try to get rid of the newline in the middle cases.

True. Also fix the pr_debug/dev_dbg cases
like drivers/dma/ppc4xx/adma.c:

static void prep_dma_pq_dbg(int id, dma_addr_t *dst, dma_addr_t *src,
			    unsigned int src_cnt)
{
	int i;

	pr_debug("\n%s(%d):\nsrc: ", __func__, id);
	for (i = 0; i < src_cnt; i++)
		pr_debug("\t0x%016llx ", src[i]);
	pr_debug("dst: ");
	for (i = 0; i < 2; i++)
		pr_debug("\t0x%016llx ", dst[i]);
}