Hello, On (12/19/16 08:00), Vlastimil Babka wrote: [..] > > @@ -4421,7 +4421,6 @@ void show_free_areas(unsigned int filter) > > printk("lowmem_reserve[]:"); > > for (i = 0; i < MAX_NR_ZONES; i++) > > printk(KERN_CONT " %ld", zone->lowmem_reserve[i]); > > - printk(KERN_CONT "\n"); > > So there's really no functional difference between terminating line > explicitly with "\n", and doing a followup printk() without KERN_CONT? > I agree that a KERN_CONT line just to print "\n" is ugly, just want to > be sure we are really safe without it, considering how KERN_CONT has > been recently changed etc. depending on what will follow. if another KERN_CONT printk then without this explicit '\n' printk may assume that we are still in cont printing; if something else -- printk should flush. kernel/printk/printk.c /* * If an earlier line was buffered, and we're a continuation * write from the same process, try to add it to the buffer. */ if (cont.len) { if (cont.owner == current && (lflags & LOG_CONT)) { if (cont_add(facility, level, lflags, text, text_len)) return text_len; } /* Otherwise, make sure it's flushed */ cont_flush(); } as far as I can tell, now for_each_populated_zone() iterations are split by non-CONT printk() from show_zone_node(), which previously has been printk(KERN_CONT "%s: ", zone->name), so pr_cont(\n) between iterations was important, but now that non-CONT printk() should do the trick. it's _a bit_ hacky, though. -ss > > } > > > > for_each_populated_zone(zone) { > > @@ -4431,8 +4430,7 @@ void show_free_areas(unsigned int filter) > > > > if (skip_free_areas_node(filter, zone_to_nid(zone))) > > continue; > > - show_node(zone); > > - printk(KERN_CONT "%s: ", zone->name); > > + show_zone_node(zone); > > > > spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags); -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>