From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/xmon: Change printk() to pr_cont()
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 21:56:49 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7p1vnym.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c8a6ec704416ecd5ff2bd26213c9bc026bdd19de.1607077340.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> writes:
> Since some time now, printk() adds carriage return, leading to
> unusable xmon output:
>
> [ 54.288722] sysrq: Entering xmon
> [ 54.292209] Vector: 0 at [cace3d2c]
> [ 54.292274] pc:
> [ 54.292331] c0023650
...
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/xmon/nonstdio.c b/arch/powerpc/xmon/nonstdio.c
> index 5c1a50912229..9b0d85bff021 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/xmon/nonstdio.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/xmon/nonstdio.c
> @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ void xmon_printf(const char *format, ...)
>
> if (n && rc == 0) {
> /* No udbg hooks, fallback to printk() - dangerous */
> - printk("%s", xmon_outbuf);
> + pr_cont("%s", xmon_outbuf);
> }
Ah OK, in the case where there's no udbg backend. We basically always
have a udbg backend on 64-bit, via hvc console. Which explains why we
haven't noticed it.
Will pick up the patch.
cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-04 10:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-04 10:35 [PATCH] powerpc/xmon: Change printk() to pr_cont() Christophe Leroy
2020-12-04 10:56 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2020-12-04 15:55 ` Joe Perches
2020-12-10 11:29 ` Michael Ellerman
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