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Linus Torvalds 5c2992ee7f printk: remove console flushing special cases for partial buffered lines 
It actively hurts proper merging, and makes for a lot of special cases.
There was a good(ish) reason for doing it originally, but it's getting
too painful to maintain.  And most of the original reasons for it are
long gone.

So instead of having special code to flush partial lines to the console
(as opposed to the record buffers), do _all_ the console writing from
the record buffer, and be done with it.

If an oops happens (or some other synchronous event), we will flush the
partial lines due to the oops printing activity, so this does not affect
that.  It does mean that if you have a completely hung machine, a
partial preceding line may not have been printed out.

That was some of the original reason for this complexity, in fact, back
when we used to test for the historical i386 "halt" instruction problem
by doing

	pr_info("Checking 'hlt' instruction... ");

	if (!boot_cpu_data.hlt_works_ok) {
		pr_cont("disabled\n");
		return;
	}
	halt();
	halt();
	halt();
	halt();
	pr_cont("OK\n");

and that model no longer works (it the 'hlt' instruction kills the
machine, the partial line won't have been flushed, so you won't even see
it).

Of course, that was also back in the days when people actually had
textual console output rather than a graphical splash-screen at bootup.
How times change..

Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
 		2016-12-14 21:08:18 -08:00
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bpf bpf: xdp: Allow head adjustment in XDP prog 2016-12-08 14:25:13 -05:00
configs config: android: enable CONFIG_SECCOMP 2016-10-11 15:06:32 -07:00
debug kdb: call vkdb_printf() from vprintk_default() only when wanted 2016-12-14 16:04:08 -08:00
events mm: add locked parameter to get_user_pages_remote() 2016-12-14 16:04:08 -08:00
gcov gcov: add support for gcc version >= 6 2016-07-15 14:54:27 +09:00
irq Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-12-12 20:23:11 -08:00
livepatch livepatch/module: make TAINT_LIVEPATCH module-specific 2016-08-26 14:42:08 +02:00
locking Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to pick up fixes 2016-12-11 13:07:13 +01:00
power Merge branch 'for-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2016-12-13 12:59:57 -08:00
printk printk: remove console flushing special cases for partial buffered lines 2016-12-14 21:08:18 -08:00
rcu rcu: Don't kick unless grace period or request 2016-11-14 10:46:31 -08:00
sched Power management material for v4.10-rc1 2016-12-13 10:41:53 -08:00
time posix-timers: give lazy compilers some help optimizing code away 2016-12-14 16:04:08 -08:00
trace Merge branch 'for-4.10/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2016-12-13 10:19:16 -08:00
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Kconfig.freezer
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Kconfig.hz
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Kconfig.locks locking/mutex: Allow MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER when DEBUG_MUTEXES 2016-10-25 11:31:51 +02:00
Kconfig.preempt
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Makefile Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2016-12-14 17:25:18 -08:00
acct.c
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async.c
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audit.c Merge branch 'stable-4.10' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2016-12-14 14:06:40 -08:00
audit.h Merge branch 'stable-4.8' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2016-07-29 17:54:17 -07:00
audit_fsnotify.c audit: fix formatting of AUDIT_CONFIG_CHANGE events 2016-11-20 15:38:00 -05:00
audit_tree.c audit: fix formatting of AUDIT_CONFIG_CHANGE events 2016-11-20 15:38:00 -05:00
audit_watch.c audit: fix formatting of AUDIT_CONFIG_CHANGE events 2016-11-20 15:38:00 -05:00
auditfilter.c audit: add support for session ID user filter 2016-11-29 15:10:12 -05:00
auditsc.c Merge branch 'stable-4.10' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2016-12-14 14:06:40 -08:00
backtracetest.c
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bounds.c
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capability.c exec: Ensure mm->user_ns contains the execed files 2016-11-22 13:21:00 -06:00
cgroup.c cgroup: add support for eBPF programs 2016-11-25 16:25:52 -05:00
cgroup_freezer.c
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cgroup_pids.c cgroup: Use lld instead of ld when printing pids controller events_limit 2016-06-21 15:03:36 -04:00
compat.c posix-timers: Make them configurable 2016-11-16 09:26:35 +01:00
configs.c
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context_tracking.c
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cpu.c hotplug: Make register and unregister notifier API symmetric 2016-12-08 10:08:41 +01:00
cpu_pm.c
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cpuset.c Merge branch 'for-4.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2016-10-14 12:18:50 -07:00
crash_dump.c
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cred.c cred: Reject inodes with invalid ids in set_create_file_as() 2016-06-30 18:05:09 -05:00
delayacct.c
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dma.c
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elfcore.c
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exec_domain.c
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exit.c Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-12-12 19:56:15 -08:00
extable.c
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fork.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2016-12-14 14:09:48 -08:00
freezer.c freezer, oom: check TIF_MEMDIE on the correct task 2016-07-28 16:07:41 -07:00
futex.c sched/wake_q: Rename WAKE_Q to DEFINE_WAKE_Q 2016-11-21 10:29:01 +01:00
futex_compat.c
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groups.c cred: simpler, 1D supplementary groups 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
hung_task.c hung_task: decrement sysctl_hung_task_warnings only if it is positive 2016-12-12 18:55:09 -08:00
irq_work.c
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jump_label.c powerpc updates for 4.8 #2 2016-08-05 09:00:54 -04:00
kallsyms.c
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kcmp.c
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kcov.c kcov: add more missing includes 2016-12-14 16:04:08 -08:00
kexec.c kexec: allow architectures to override boot mapping 2016-08-02 19:35:27 -04:00
kexec_core.c kexec: add cond_resched into kimage_alloc_crash_control_pages 2016-12-14 16:04:07 -08:00
kexec_file.c kexec: fix double-free when failing to relocate the purgatory 2016-09-01 17:52:01 -07:00
kexec_internal.h
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kmod.c
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kprobes.c kprobes: include <asm/sections.h> instead of <asm-generic/sections.h> 2016-10-11 15:06:31 -07:00
ksysfs.c kexec: add a kexec_crash_loaded() function 2016-08-02 19:35:30 -04:00
kthread.c kthread: add __printf attributes 2016-12-12 18:55:06 -08:00
latencytop.c
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membarrier.c
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memremap.c mm: fix cache mode of dax pmd mappings 2016-09-09 17:34:46 -07:00
module-internal.h
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module.c Modules updates for v4.10 2016-12-14 20:12:43 -08:00
module_signing.c
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notifier.c
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nsproxy.c
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padata.c padata: Remove unused but set variables 2016-10-25 11:08:10 +08:00
panic.c taint/module: Clean up global and module taint flags handling 2016-11-26 11:18:01 -08:00
params.c
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pid.c remove lots of IS_ERR_VALUE abuses 2016-05-27 15:26:11 -07:00
pid_namespace.c Merge branch 'nsfs-ioctls' into HEAD 2016-09-22 20:00:36 -05:00
profile.c profile: Convert to hotplug state machine 2016-07-15 10:41:42 +02:00
ptrace.c ptrace: Don't allow accessing an undumpable mm 2016-11-22 12:57:38 -06:00
range.c
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reboot.c
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relay.c relay: check array offset before using it 2016-12-14 16:04:08 -08:00
resource.c
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seccomp.c Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2016-12-14 13:57:44 -08:00
signal.c signals: avoid unnecessary taking of sighand->siglock 2016-12-14 16:04:07 -08:00
smp.c kernel/smp: Tell the user we're bringing up secondary CPUs 2016-10-26 12:02:35 +02:00
smpboot.c kthread/smpboot: do not park in kthread_create_on_cpu() 2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
smpboot.h
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softirq.c softirq: Display IRQ_POLL for irq-poll statistics 2016-10-21 15:45:47 -06:00
stacktrace.c
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stop_machine.c locking/core, stop_machine: Yield the CPU during stop machine() 2016-11-16 10:15:09 +01:00
sys.c Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2016-12-12 20:50:02 -08:00
sys_ni.c x86/pkeys: Fix pkeys build breakage for some non-x86 arches 2016-09-13 14:41:36 +02:00
sysctl.c coredump: clarify "unsafe core_pattern" warning 2016-12-14 16:04:07 -08:00
sysctl_binary.c sysctl: add KERN_CONT to deprecated_sysctl_warning() 2016-12-14 16:04:07 -08:00
task_work.c task_work: use READ_ONCE/lockless_dereference, avoid pi_lock if !task_works 2016-08-02 19:35:02 -04:00
taskstats.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-11-15 10:54:36 -05:00
test_kprobes.c
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torture.c torture: Convert torture_shutdown() to hrtimer 2016-08-22 10:01:49 -07:00
tracepoint.c
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tsacct.c
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ucount.c mntns: Add a limit on the number of mount namespaces. 2016-08-31 07:28:35 -05:00
uid16.c cred: simpler, 1D supplementary groups 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
up.c smp: Add function to execute a function synchronously on a CPU 2016-09-05 13:52:39 +02:00
user-return-notifier.c
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user.c
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user_namespace.c Merge branch 'nsfs-ioctls' into HEAD 2016-09-22 20:00:36 -05:00
utsname.c Merge branch 'nsfs-ioctls' into HEAD 2016-09-22 20:00:36 -05:00
utsname_sysctl.c
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watchdog.c kernel/watchdog.c: move hardlockup detector to separate file 2016-12-14 16:04:08 -08:00
watchdog_hld.c kernel/watchdog.c: move hardlockup detector to separate file 2016-12-14 16:04:08 -08:00
workqueue.c Merge branch 'for-4.9' into for-4.10 2016-10-19 12:12:40 -04:00
workqueue_internal.h
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