Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] printk: Use console_flush_one_record for legacy printer kthread

[John Ogness]

On 2025-09-27, Andrew Murray <amurray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
> index e2c1cacdb4164489c60fe38f1e2837eb838107d6..2c9b9383df76de956a05211537264fd6e06366da 100644
> --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
> +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
> @@ -3668,17 +3668,29 @@ static bool legacy_kthread_should_wakeup(void)
>  
>  static int legacy_kthread_func(void *unused)
>  {
> -	for (;;) {
> -		wait_event_interruptible(legacy_wait, legacy_kthread_should_wakeup());
> +	bool any_progress;
> +
> +wait_for_event:
> +	wait_event_interruptible(legacy_wait,
> +				 legacy_kthread_should_wakeup());
> +
> +	do {
> +		bool any_usable;
> +		bool handover = false;
> +		u64 next_seq;

Please sort by length. It looks nicer. ;-)

		bool handover = false;
		bool any_usable;
		u64 next_seq;

Note that it is fine that @any_usable is not initialized here because
legacy_kthread_func() does not actually care about this variable.

John