Re: [GIT PULL] x86/urgent fixes for v3.5

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed May 23 2012 - 13:48:47 EST



* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 05/23/2012 10:07 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Sasha Levin (1):
> >> x86, printk: Add missing KERN_CONT to NMI selftest
> >
> > Why? This seems to be garbage.
> >
>
> This was added to the urgent branch earlier (but it wasn't
> worth pushing late in rc) but apparently a more underlying bug
> was fixed in the meantime.
>
> It didn't seem worth removing since the KERN_CONT should
> really be there anyway.

I'm not sure it should be there: if there's no KERN_ prefix in a
printk, and the previous printk from this context did not end
with \n, then the KERN_CONT should be implicit.

KERN_CONT is really special, for rare cases where you want to
explicitly avoid the <> priority field or to construct it.

Or at least that's how I understand this area, it might have
been updated meanwhile - Linus?

Also, we can rebase the whole branch and get rid of this one and
of the merge commit it has.

Thanks,

Ingo
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