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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-09-21 09:34:29 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-09-21 09:34:29 -0700
commit56c1e8343494f0a315c99964ea1a952478394a8d (patch)
tree174cc3f4782d00fe0f8e47bff1ae8102d26cdccc /Documentation/ABI
parentf97c81dc6ca5996560b3944064f63fc87eb18d00 (diff)
parentae88de56a1893bdccc7b5af8c12556de649d675e (diff)
Merge tag 'printk-for-5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk
Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek: - Fix off-by-one error when calculating messages that might fit into kmsg buffer. It causes occasional omitting of the last message. - Add missing pointer check in %pD format modifier handling. - Some clean up * tag 'printk-for-5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk: ABI: Update dev-kmsg documentation to match current kernel behaviour printk: Replace strncmp() with str_has_prefix() lib/test_printf: Remove obvious comments from %pd and %pD tests lib/test_printf: Add test of null/invalid pointer dereference for dentry vsprintf: Prevent crash when dereferencing invalid pointers for %pD printk: Do not lose last line in kmsg buffer dump
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg15
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg b/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg
index fff817efa508..f307506eb54c 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Description: The /dev/kmsg character device node provides userspace access
The logged line can be prefixed with a <N> syslog prefix, which
carries the syslog priority and facility. The single decimal
prefix number is composed of the 3 lowest bits being the syslog
- priority and the higher bits the syslog facility number.
+ priority and the next 8 bits the syslog facility number.
If no prefix is given, the priority number is the default kernel
log priority and the facility number is set to LOG_USER (1). It
@@ -90,13 +90,12 @@ Description: The /dev/kmsg character device node provides userspace access
+sound:card0 - subsystem:devname
The flags field carries '-' by default. A 'c' indicates a
- fragment of a line. All following fragments are flagged with
- '+'. Note, that these hints about continuation lines are not
- necessarily correct, and the stream could be interleaved with
- unrelated messages, but merging the lines in the output
- usually produces better human readable results. A similar
- logic is used internally when messages are printed to the
- console, /proc/kmsg or the syslog() syscall.
+ fragment of a line. Note, that these hints about continuation
+ lines are not necessarily correct, and the stream could be
+ interleaved with unrelated messages, but merging the lines in
+ the output usually produces better human readable results. A
+ similar logic is used internally when messages are printed to
+ the console, /proc/kmsg or the syslog() syscall.
By default, kernel tries to avoid fragments by concatenating
when it can and fragments are rare; however, when extended