Re: truncate dict: was: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] printk: use the lockless ringbuffer

From: John Ogness
Date: Fri Jun 26 2020 - 09:48:58 EST


On 2020-06-25, Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
>> +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
>> @@ -594,22 +473,26 @@ static u32 msg_used_size(u16 text_len, u16 dict_len, u32 *pad_len)
>> #define MAX_LOG_TAKE_PART 4
>> static const char trunc_msg[] = "<truncated>";
>>
>> -static u32 truncate_msg(u16 *text_len, u16 *trunc_msg_len,
>> - u16 *dict_len, u32 *pad_len)
>> +static void truncate_msg(u16 *text_len, u16 *trunc_msg_len, u16 *dict_len)
>> {
>> /*
>> * The message should not take the whole buffer. Otherwise, it might
>> * get removed too soon.
>> */
>> u32 max_text_len = log_buf_len / MAX_LOG_TAKE_PART;
>> +
>> if (*text_len > max_text_len)
>> *text_len = max_text_len;
>> - /* enable the warning message */
>> +
>> + /* enable the warning message (if there is room) */
>> *trunc_msg_len = strlen(trunc_msg);
>> + if (*text_len >= *trunc_msg_len)
>> + *text_len -= *trunc_msg_len;
>> + else
>> + *trunc_msg_len = 0;
>> +
>> /* disable the "dict" completely */
>> *dict_len = 0;
>
> The dictionary does not longer need to be removed at this point.
> It is stored in a separate buffer. It is ignored by prb_reserve()
> when there is not enough space for it.

Agreed. @dict_len argument will also be dropped from the function.

John Ogness