printk() - do not merge continuation lines of different threads
authorKay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Thu, 10 May 2012 02:32:53 +0000 (04:32 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 10 May 2012 03:29:59 +0000 (20:29 -0700)
This prevents the merging of printk() continuation lines of different
threads, in the case they race against each other.

It should properly isolate "atomic" single-line printk() users from
continuation users, to make sure the single-line users will never be
merged with the racy continuation ones.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/printk.c

diff --cc kernel/printk.c
Simple merge