Re: [PATCH] printk: Add caller information to printk() output.

[Petr Mladek]

On Tue 2018-12-11 19:26:48, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> >From bdb80508390694456f3f864f9651d047ded109bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 19:23:30 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH v4] printk: Add caller information to printk() output.
> 
> Sometimes we want to print a series of printk() messages to consoles
> without being disturbed by concurrent printk() from interrupts and/or
> other threads. But we can't enforce printk() callers to use their local
> buffers because we need to ask them to make too much changes. Also, even
> buffering up to one line inside printk() might cause failing to emit
> an important clue under critical situation.
> 
> Therefore, instead of trying to help buffering, let's try to help
> reconstructing messages by saving caller information as of calling
> log_store() and adding it as "[T$thread_id]" or "[C$processor_id]"
> upon printing to consoles.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The patch looks fine to me:

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>

Sergey, would you mind to ack this patch as well?


>From my point of view, the patch is ready to go into
linux-next. Well, I would prefer to keep it there one more
release cycle. There is no rush. The patch is primary for
0-day robot. We are very close to the next merge window
that will be problematic because of the holidays.

Best Regards,
Petr