Re: printk: what is going on with additional newlines?

[Sergey Senozhatsky]

On (08/28/17 11:05), Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> In 4.13-rc, printk("foo"); printk("bar"); seems to produce
> foo\nbar. That's... quite surprising/unwelcome. What is going on
> there? Are timestamps responsible?

well, one thing we know for sure it is not related to this patch set  ;)


does any of the below patches fix the problem for you?

basically it sets up the rule -- if we don't have LOG_NEWLINE lflags
then we enforce LOG_CONT.

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@@ -1721,9 +1723,13 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk_emit(int facility, int level,
 	text_len = vscnprintf(text, sizeof(textbuf), fmt, args);
 
 	/* mark and strip a trailing newline */
-	if (text_len && text[text_len-1] == '\n') {
-		text_len--;
-		lflags |= LOG_NEWLINE;
+	if (text_len) {
+		if (text[text_len-1] == '\n') {
+			text_len--;
+			lflags |= LOG_NEWLINE;
+		} else {
+			lflags |= LOG_CONT;
+		}
 	}
 
 	/* strip kernel syslog prefix and extract log level or control flags */


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=== 8< === 8< ===


or... an alternative "solution"

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diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index fc47863f629c..5fd567abc5e6 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -1670,7 +1670,9 @@ static size_t log_output(int facility, int level, enum log_flags lflags, const c
 	 * write from the same process, try to add it to the buffer.
 	 */
 	if (cont.len) {
-		if (cont.owner == current && (lflags & LOG_CONT)) {
+		if (cont.owner == current &&
+				((lflags & LOG_CONT) ||
+				 !(lflags & LOG_NEWLINE))) {
 			if (cont_add(facility, level, lflags, text, text_len))
 				return text_len;
 		}


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	-ss