Re: [PATCH] printk: Add caller information to printk() output.

[Sergey Senozhatsky]

On (12/13/18 13:18), Petr Mladek wrote:
> > Sometimes we want to print a series of printk() messages to consoles
> > without being disturbed by concurrent printk() from interrupts and/or
> > other threads. But we can't enforce printk() callers to use their local
> > buffers because we need to ask them to make too much changes. Also, even
> > buffering up to one line inside printk() might cause failing to emit
> > an important clue under critical situation.
> > 
> > Therefore, instead of trying to help buffering, let's try to help
> > reconstructing messages by saving caller information as of calling
> > log_store() and adding it as "[T$thread_id]" or "[C$processor_id]"
> > upon printing to consoles.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The patch looks fine to me:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> Sergey, would you mind to ack this patch as well?

Sure, Petr

Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>

> From my point of view, the patch is ready to go into
> linux-next. Well, I would prefer to keep it there one more
> release cycle.

No objections.

	-ss