Hello, I made a trivial patch for v1.5.7. This isn't essential but it's better than nothing. Thanks Atsushi Kumagai From: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 18:58:38 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] Fix dmesg format after crash utility. Add some spaces before a new line as much as the length of the timestamp like crash utility as: $ diff -u current.dmesg fixed.dmesg --- current.dmesg 2014-08-28 17:39:53.000000000 +0900 +++ fixed.dmesg 2014-08-27 16:46:09.000000000 +0900 @@ -150,8 +150,8 @@ [ 0.015251] Disabled fast string operations [ 0.015285] mce: CPU supports 10 MCE banks [ 0.015402] Last level iTLB entries: 4KB 0, 2MB 0, 4MB 0 -Last level dTLB entries: 4KB 0, 2MB 0, 4MB 0, 1GB 0 -tlb_flushall_shift: 6 + Last level dTLB entries: 4KB 0, 2MB 0, 4MB 0, 1GB 0 + tlb_flushall_shift: 6 [ 0.015535] Freeing SMP alternatives memory: 20K (ffffffff81964000 - ffffffff81969000) [ 0.018265] ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 [ 0.028286] smpboot: CPU0: Intel QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6) (fam: 06, model: 0d, stepping: 03) $ Signed-off-by: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi at mxc.nes.nec.co.jp> --- makedumpfile.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/makedumpfile.c b/makedumpfile.c index b4b6eca..632daba 100644 --- a/makedumpfile.c +++ b/makedumpfile.c @@ -3950,6 +3950,7 @@ dump_log_entry(char *logptr, int fp) { char *msg, *p, *bufp; unsigned int i, text_len; + unsigned int indent_len; unsigned long long ts_nsec; char buf[BUFSIZE]; ulonglong nanos; @@ -3965,6 +3966,7 @@ dump_log_entry(char *logptr, int fp) bufp = buf; bufp += sprintf(buf, "[%5lld.%06ld] ", nanos, rem/1000); + indent_len = strlen(buf); for (i = 0, p = msg; i < text_len; i++, p++) { /* 6bytes = "\\x%02x" + '\n' + '\0' */ @@ -3974,7 +3976,9 @@ dump_log_entry(char *logptr, int fp) bufp = buf; } - if (isprint(*p) || isspace(*p)) + if (*p == '\n') + bufp += sprintf(bufp, "\n%-*s", indent_len, ""); + else if (isprint(*p) || isspace(*p)) *bufp++ = *p; else bufp += sprintf(bufp, "\\x%02x", *p); -- 1.9.0