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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
	John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: POC: Alternative solution: Re: [PATCH 0/4] printk: reimplement LOG_CONT handling
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 20:08:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ccc21619fdee79985f619adeb49bd5713dc97d80.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wjNZ40akqgnb1y=dSYv1fX2Wk1SGF5hAzuV2azi5oQ+Tg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2020-08-14 at 19:33 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 4:52 PM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2020-08-14 at 15:46 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > This is why I think any discussion that says "people should buffer
> > > their lines themselves and we should get rid if pr_cont()" is
> > > fundamentally broken.
> > > 
> > > Don't go down that hole. I won't take it. It's wrong.
> > 
> > I don't think it's wrong per se.
> 
> It's *absolutely* and 100% wrong.
> 
> Yes, any random *user* of pr_cont() can decide to buffer on it's own.

Which I believe is the point of the discussion,
not the complete removal of KERN_CONT.

> But when the discussion is about printk() - the implementation, not
> the users - then it's complete and utter BS to talk about trying to
> get rid of pr_cont().
> 
> See the difference?

Sure, but I fail to see where anyone said get rid of pr_cont
in this thread.  It seems all that was discussed was just
various schemes to improve coalescing output.



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  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-15  3:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-17 23:48 [PATCH 0/4] printk: reimplement LOG_CONT handling John Ogness
2020-07-17 23:48 ` [PATCH 1/4] printk: ringbuffer: support dataless records John Ogness
2020-07-20 14:49   ` John Ogness
2020-07-17 23:48 ` [PATCH 2/4] printk: store instead of processing cont parts John Ogness
2020-07-19 14:35   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-07-19 18:27     ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-20  1:50       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-07-20 18:30         ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-21  3:53           ` Joe Perches
2020-07-21 14:42           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-07-21 14:57             ` John Ogness
2020-07-29  2:03               ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-07-21 15:40             ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-28  2:22               ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-07-17 23:48 ` [PATCH 3/4] printk: process cont records during reading John Ogness
2020-07-17 23:48 ` [PATCH 4/4] ipconfig: cleanup printk usage John Ogness
2020-07-18  0:00 ` [PATCH 0/4] printk: reimplement LOG_CONT handling Linus Torvalds
2020-07-18 14:42   ` John Ogness
2020-07-18 17:42     ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-11 16:05     ` Petr Mladek
2020-08-12 16:39       ` POC: Alternative solution: " Petr Mladek
2020-08-13  0:24         ` John Ogness
2020-08-13  5:18           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-08-13  7:44             ` John Ogness
2020-08-13  8:41               ` Petr Mladek
2020-08-13 10:29                 ` John Ogness
2020-08-13 11:30                   ` Petr Mladek
2020-08-14  3:34                   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-08-14  8:16                     ` John Ogness
2020-08-14  9:12                       ` Petr Mladek
2020-08-13 11:54                 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-08-14  9:04                   ` Petr Mladek
2020-08-14 22:46                   ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-14 23:52                     ` Joe Perches
2020-08-15  2:33                       ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-15  3:08                         ` Joe Perches [this message]
2020-08-15  9:25                       ` David Laight
2020-08-15  5:41                     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-08-13  7:51             ` Petr Mladek
2020-08-13  7:31           ` Petr Mladek

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