Re: [PATCH] mm: simplify node/zone name printing

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Mon Dec 19 2016 - 03:12:22 EST


On Mon 19-12-16 16:32:28, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
[...]
> as far as I can tell, now for_each_populated_zone() iterations are
> split by non-CONT printk() from show_zone_node(), which previously
> has been printk(KERN_CONT "%s: ", zone->name), so pr_cont(\n)
> between iterations was important, but now that non-CONT printk()
> should do the trick. it's _a bit_ hacky, though.

Do you consider that more hacky than the original? At least for me,
starting with KERN_CONT and relying on an explicit \n sounds more error
prone than leaving the last pr_cont without \n and relying on the
implicit flushing.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs