On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 22:25 +0000, Chris Down wrote: > Petr Mladek writes: > > + <module> is already optinaly added by pr_fmt() to the printed strings > > as: pr_fmt(): ... > > pr_fmts are not consistently used across the kernel, and sometimes differ from > the module itself. Many modules don't use it at all, and we also don't have it > for pr_cont. Just picking some random examples: > > % grep -av vmlinux /proc/printk_formats | shuf -n 10 > mac80211,6%s: mesh STA %pM switches to channel requiring DFS (%d MHz, width:%d, CF1/2: %d/%d MHz), aborting > thinkpad_acpi,c N/Athinkpad_acpi,c %dthinkpad_acpi,5thinkpad_acpi: temperatures (Celsius):thinkpad_acpi,3thinkpad_acpi: Out of memory for LED data I don't understand this format. "Out of memory for LED data" is a single printk ending with a '\n' newline I expected this to be broken up into multiple lines, one for each printk that endsd in a newline. And what would happen if the function was refactored removing the pr_cont uses like the below: (basically, any output that uses a mechanism that aggregates a buffer then emits it, and there are a _lot_ of those) printk("%s\n", buffer); And there is already a relatively trivial way to do this using a modified version of strings that looks for KERN_SOH[0-6], and if dynamic_debug is enabled, look in the dynamic_debug section, either __verbose or __dyndbg depending on the kernel version. --- drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c index 18b390153e7f..ff1c09c600f8 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c @@ -6353,21 +6353,26 @@ static void thermal_dump_all_sensors(void) { int n, i; struct ibm_thermal_sensors_struct t; + char output[256]; + int len = 0; n = thermal_get_sensors(&t); if (n <= 0) return; - pr_notice("temperatures (Celsius):"); + len += scnprintf(output + len, sizeof(output) - len, + "temperatures (Celsius):"); for (i = 0; i < n; i++) { - if (t.temp[i] != TPACPI_THERMAL_SENSOR_NA) - pr_cont(" %d", (int)(t.temp[i] / 1000)); + if (t.temp[i] == TPACPI_THERMAL_SENSOR_NA) + len += scnprintf(output + len, sizeof(output) - len, + " N/A"); else - pr_cont(" N/A"); + len += scnprintf(output + len, sizeof(output) - len, + " %d", t.temp[i] / 1000); } - pr_cont("\n"); + pr_notice("%s\n", output); } /* sysfs temp##_input -------------------------------------------------- */