Re: [PATCH] printk: inject caller information into the body of message

[Sergey Senozhatsky]

On (06/22/18 22:06), Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> >
> > Awesome. If you and Fengguang can combine forces and lead the
> > whole thing towards "we couldn't care of pr_cont() less", it
> > would be really huuuuuge. Go for it!
> 
> Can't we have seq_printf()-like one which flushes automatically upon seeing '\n'
> or buffer full? Printing memory information is using a lot of pr_cont(), even in
> function names (e.g. http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180622083949.GR10465@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ).
> Since OOM killer code is serialized by oom_lock, we can use static buffer for
> OOM killer messages.

I'm not the right guy to answer this question. Sorry. We need to Cc MM
people on this.

Does OOM's pr_cont() usage cause too much disturbance to syzkaller? I thought
that OOM was slightly out of sight.

	-ss