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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] init: Allow multi-line output of kernel command
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On Wed, 2020-05-20 at 21:10 +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (20/05/19 21:58), Joe Perches wrote:
> [..]
> > >  Maybe we can
> > > use here something rather random and much shorter instead. E.g.
> > > 256 chars. Hmm. How 
> > 
> > 	min(some_max like 132/256, PRINTK_LOG_LINE_MAX)
> > 
> > would work.
> 
> An alternative approach would be to do what we do in the
> print_modules() (the list of modules which can definitely
> be longer than 1K chars).
> 
> We can split command line in a loop - memchr(pos, ' ') - and
> pr_cont() parts of the command line. pr_cont() has overflow
> control and it flushes cont buffer before it overflows, so
> we should not lose anything.

It doesn't matter much here, but I believe
there's an 8k max buffer for pr_cont output.

include/linux/printk.h:#define CONSOLE_EXT_LOG_MAX      8192

Anyway, no worries, it simplifies the loop if
done that way.