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From: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Kexec Mailing List <kexec@lists.infradead.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmcore-dmesg: vmcore-dmesg: Make it work with new structured logging format
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 14:08:27 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120801050827.GF19796@verge.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120730173248.GB2317@redhat.com>

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 01:32:48PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> Now kernel has made kernel logging structured and exsisting vmcore-dmesg
> does not work with this new format. Hence kernel version 3.5 is broken. In
> 3.6 now a kernel patch has been put which exports relevant fields. This
> patch parses those fields and makes vmcore-dmesg work with new logging
> format.
> 
> Currently it does not display log levels or dictionary. I personally think
> that log levels are not very useful and it also requires additional kernel
> patches so that log levels are not bitfields and relevant information is
> exported to user space properly.
> 
> Concept of dictionary is new and relevant information is exported. One can
> possibly enahnce vmcore-dmesg to also print dictionary contents based on
> a user command line option.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>

Thanks, applied.

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-30 17:32 [PATCH] vmcore-dmesg: vmcore-dmesg: Make it work with new structured logging format Vivek Goyal
2012-08-01  5:08 ` Simon Horman [this message]

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