Re: [PATCH] mm: pagealloc: fix continued prints in show_free_areas

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Tue Oct 18 2016 - 09:05:22 EST


On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 03:00:40PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 10/18/2016 01:34 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> >In show_free_areas, we miss KERN_CONT in a few cases, and as a result
> >prints are unexpectedly split over a number of lines, making them
> >difficult to read (in v4.9-rc1).
> >
> >This patch uses pr_cont (with uits implicit KERN_CONT) to mark all
> >continued prints that occur withing a show_free_areas() call. Note that
> >show_migration_types() is only called by show_free_areas().
> >Depending on CONFIG_NUMA a printk after show_node() may or may not be a
> >continuation, but follows an explicit newline if not (and thus marking
> >it as a continuation should not be harmful).
>
> I think this was already fixed:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=147623910031630&w=2

So it was; thanks for the pointer!

Thanks,
Mark.