Re: 5.19 printk breaks message ordering

Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-06-17T14:41:18Z

On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 04:21:15PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> In fact, in your case you might get even better synchronization
> if you do it the other way and write userspace messages into
> the kernel log via /dev/kmsg:
>
> echo "Hello world" > /dev/kmsg

The idea is to interleave stderr/stdout properly, as CI has done for
ages, which threaded printk breaks, and which my patch (now posted)
fixes behind a default-off option. You can't dup2 /dev/kmsg to 1 and 2,
as the write() semantics are different, with respect to buffering and
with respect to new lines. The interfaces aren't comparable, so this
isn't quite a solution. (Besides, not breaking things as they currently
exist has a certain benefit.)

Jason