Re: Garbled shutdown message

Michael Butler wrote:
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Kris Kennaway wrote:
Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
If you look at this closely you can find "Syncing (max 60 seconds) for
system process" if you read about every other character. It's always the
third of the three "Waiting" lines. Anyone else seeing this?
You have an SMP system and do not have the PRINTF_BUFR option or
whatever it is. Without it multiple CPUs have no synchronization
between printfs and will interleave.

So the recommended value for PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE is ... ?

NOTES has 128 I think.

In my (very brief) browse through kern/subr_prf.c, I didn't see any
overflow protection on the stack-allocated buffer ... which makes me
rather nervous.
>
Interleaved text is *way* better than clobbered kernel stack ..

So either fix it if there is a problem or don't use it if you are scared :)

Kris
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