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SubjectPrintk mulitple line message support
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Hi,

In most cases, printk only guarantees messages from different printk
calling will not be interleaved between each other. But many printk
users uses multiple line to form a complete message and call printk
for each line. So the following situation is possible for two printk
users running on two CPUs.

line 1 of message from printk user1
line 1 of message from printk user2
line 2 of message from printk user1
line 2 of message from printk user2

This makes kernel log hard to read. One possible solution to this
issue is to give a sequence number (or ID) to each complete message.
So the above lines will be:

{1}line 1 of message from printk user1
{2}line 1 of message from printk user2
{1}line 2 of message from printk user1
{2}line 2 of message from printk user2

Then some simple script can be used to group lines together according
to sequence number in lines.

What do you think about that?

A simple patch to implement this is followed.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying

---
include/linux/printk.h | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
kernel/printk.c | 7 +++++++
2 files changed, 31 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ static char *log_buf = __log_buf;
static int log_buf_len = __LOG_BUF_LEN;
static unsigned logged_chars; /* Number of chars produced since last read+clear operation */
static int saved_console_loglevel = -1;
+static atomic_t printk_seqno;

#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
/*
@@ -970,6 +971,12 @@ out_restore_irqs:
EXPORT_SYMBOL(printk);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(vprintk);

+unsigned int printk_ml_seqno(void)
+{
+ return atomic_inc_return(&printk_seqno);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(printk_ml_seqno);
+
#else

static void call_console_drivers(unsigned start, unsigned end)
--- a/include/linux/printk.h
+++ b/include/linux/printk.h
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ extern int kptr_restrict;

void log_buf_kexec_setup(void);
void __init setup_log_buf(int early);
+unsigned int printk_ml_seqno(void);
#else
static inline __printf(1, 0)
int vprintk(const char *s, va_list args)
@@ -144,6 +145,11 @@ static inline void log_buf_kexec_setup(v
static inline void setup_log_buf(int early)
{
}
+
+static unsigned int printk_ml_seqno(void)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
#endif

extern void dump_stack(void) __cold;
@@ -192,6 +198,24 @@ extern void dump_stack(void) __cold;
no_printk(KERN_DEBUG pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
#endif

+#define PR_ML_FMT "{%u}"
+
+#define pr_emerg_ml(seqno, fmt, ...) \
+ printk(KERN_EMERG PR_ML_FMT pr_fmt(fmt), seqno, ##__VA_ARGS__)
+#define pr_alert_ml(seqno, fmt, ...) \
+ printk(KERN_ALERT PR_ML_FMT pr_fmt(fmt), seqno, ##__VA_ARGS__)
+#define pr_crit_ml(seqno, fmt, ...) \
+ printk(KERN_CRIT PR_ML_FMT pr_fmt(fmt), seqno, ##__VA_ARGS__)
+#define pr_err_ml(seqno, fmt, ...) \
+ printk(KERN_ERR PR_ML_FMT pr_fmt(fmt), seqno, ##__VA_ARGS__)
+#define pr_warning_ml(seqno, fmt, ...) \
+ printk(KERN_WARNING PR_ML_FMT pr_fmt(fmt), seqno, ##__VA_ARGS__)
+#define pr_warn_ml pr_warning_ml
+#define pr_notice_ml(seqno, fmt, ...) \
+ printk(KERN_NOTICE PR_ML_FMT pr_fmt(fmt), seqno, ##__VA_ARGS__)
+#define pr_info_ml(seqno, fmt, ...) \
+ printk(KERN_INFO PR_ML_FMT pr_fmt(fmt), seqno, ##__VA_ARGS__)
+
/*
* Print a one-time message (analogous to WARN_ONCE() et al):
*/



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