From: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>, Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] printk: Allocate kernel log buffer earlier v2
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:37:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D949FCA.70503@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110331064820.GB5938@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> wrote:
>
>> Subject: printk: Allocate kernel log buffer earlier v2
>>
>> On larger systems, because of the numerous ACPI, Bootmem and EFI
>> messages, the static log buffer overflows before the larger one
>> specified by the log_buf_len param is allocated. Minimize the
>> overflow by allocating the new log buffer as soon as possible.
>>
>> The allocation method is passed in as an argument to make
>> backporting to "pre-memblock" kernels easier.
>
> Hm, all that allocation pointer magic looks a tad too complex and non-obvious.
>
> Why not just make it as simple and obvious as possible for the current kernel -
> and we can still mark it -stable and you backport it to the non-memblock
> kernel? That keeps compatibility complexity out of upstream ...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ingo
Sure, I can do that.
THanks,
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-31 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-25 18:06 [PATCH 0/4] init: Shrink early messages to prevent overflowing the kernel log buffer Mike Travis
2011-02-25 18:06 ` [PATCH 1/4] printk: Allocate kernel log buffer earlier Mike Travis
2011-02-27 12:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-02-27 12:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-02-28 1:34 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-02-28 8:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-02-28 19:26 ` Mike Travis
2011-03-01 7:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-02-28 8:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-02-28 19:18 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-02-28 19:18 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-02-28 19:29 ` Mike Travis
2011-02-28 19:23 ` Mike Travis
2011-02-28 19:46 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-02-28 19:46 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-02-28 20:02 ` Mike Travis
2011-02-28 22:59 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-02-28 22:59 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-03-31 0:41 ` [PATCH 1/2] memblock: add error return when CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK is not set Mike Travis
2011-03-31 0:57 ` [PATCH 2/2] printk: Allocate kernel log buffer earlier v2 Mike Travis
2011-03-31 6:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-31 15:37 ` Mike Travis [this message]
2011-03-31 1:40 ` [PATCH 1/2] memblock: add error return when CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK is not set Yinghai Lu
2011-03-31 1:40 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-03-31 15:23 ` Mike Travis
2011-03-31 16:17 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-04-07 19:43 ` Mike Travis
2011-04-08 6:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-01 7:42 ` [PATCH 1/4] printk: Allocate kernel log buffer earlier Ingo Molnar
2011-02-28 19:14 ` Mike Travis
2011-02-25 18:06 ` [PATCH 2/4] printk: Break out printk_time Mike Travis
2011-02-27 11:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-02-25 18:06 ` [PATCH 3/4] printk: Minimize time zero output Mike Travis
2011-02-25 18:06 ` [PATCH 4/4] x86: Minimize SRAT messages Mike Travis
2011-02-27 12:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-02-28 19:41 ` Mike Travis
2011-03-01 7:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-31 2:38 ` Len Brown
2011-03-31 4:40 ` Yinghai Lu
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-04-25 18:11 [PATCH 0/2] printk: Allocate log buffer as early as possible Mike Travis
2011-04-25 18:11 ` [PATCH 2/2] printk: Allocate kernel log buffer earlier v2 Mike Travis
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