On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 02:54:15PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > printk will determine the current context: > > task, softirq, hardirq or NMI > > and pick the corresponding per-cpu line buffer and do the vsnprintf() We need 4, but we don't need to do the exact context determination for this. We can keep a simple counter: #define MAX_IDX 4 /* task, sirq, hirq, nmi */ #define MAX_LEN 1020 /* sizeof(struct line_buffer) < 4k */ struct line_buffers { int idx; char line[MAX_IDX][MAX_LEN]; }; static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct line_buffers, lbs); static char *get_linebuf(void) { struct line_buffers *lbp = this_cpu_ptr(&lbs); int idx; idx = lbp->idx++; return lbp->linx[idx]; } static void put_linbuf(void) { this_cpu_dec(lbs.idx); } > thing. Then we have the actual line length and content. With the length > we reserve the bytes from the global buffer, we memcpy into the buffer > and commit.