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.
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> 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.
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> 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