On Sat, 2020-09-26 at 04:01 +0206, John Ogness wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Marek Szyprowski reported [0] a problem with a particular printk
> usage. This particular usage performs thousands of LOG_CONT calls.
> The printk.c implementation was only limiting the growing record by
> the maximum size available in the ringbuffer, thus creating a record
> that was several kilobytes in size. This in and of itself is not
> a problem.
Perhaps another mechanism would be to change the code to
add a backspace before the rotor and have the printk
ringbuffer actually backspace on \h when position > 0
Something like:
---
diff --git a/init/do_mounts_rd.c b/init/do_mounts_rd.c
index ac021ae6e6fa..8a36443b4866 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts_rd.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts_rd.c
@@ -257,7 +258,7 @@ int __init rd_load_image(char *from)
kernel_write(out_file, buf, BLOCK_SIZE, &out_pos);
#if !defined(CONFIG_S390)
if (!(i % 16)) {
- pr_cont("%c\b", rotator[rotate & 0x3]);
+ pr_cont("\h%c\b", rotator[rotate & 0x3]);
rotate++;
}
#endif
