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From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To: Sreenath Vijayan <sreenath.vijayan@sony.com>
Cc: john.ogness@linutronix.de, corbet@lwn.net,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, jirislaby@kernel.org,
	rdunlap@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	senozhatsky@chromium.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
	taichi.shimoyashiki@sony.com, daniel.palmer@sony.com,
	anandakumar.balasubramaniam@sony.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] Add support to dump printk buffer to console via sysrq
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2024 15:12:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZcOPuTK4gPsDJjg8@alley> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1706772349.git.sreenath.vijayan@sony.com>

Hi,

first, I am sorry for joining the game so late. I was sick
and have had a lot of pending tasks after Christmas's holidays
and the sickness.

On Thu 2024-02-01 13:12:39, Sreenath Vijayan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This patch series enables one to dump the messages in printk ring
> buffer unless all CPUs are locked up. This is useful to view the
> kernel messages when terminal is unresponsive to enter commands
> like dmesg and syslog services are also disabled, especially on
> embedded targets.

What is the exact scenario for this feature, please?

IMHO, rewinding the entire log on an unresponsive terminal
has a questionable value. Most messages would scroll down
quickly and only the last messages would stay visible.

Also this code would rewind all consoles, including
(slow) serial ones. I wonder if rewind on these consoles
would be useful as well.

That said, I am not completely against this feature.
I just want to be sure that it does what you expect.

Best Regards,
Petr

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-02-07 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-01 10:16 [PATCH v4 0/2] Add support to dump printk buffer to console via sysrq Sreenath Vijayan
2024-02-01 10:23 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] printk: Add function to dump printk buffer directly to consoles Sreenath Vijayan
2024-02-01 11:28   ` John Ogness
2024-02-07 14:43   ` Petr Mladek
2024-02-14 10:33     ` Sreenath Vijayan
2024-02-01 10:29 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] tty/sysrq: Dump printk ring buffer messages via sysrq Sreenath Vijayan
2024-02-01 11:29   ` John Ogness
2024-02-07 15:09   ` Petr Mladek
2024-02-08 10:18     ` Greg KH
2024-02-08 13:39       ` John Ogness
2024-02-14 10:40     ` Sreenath Vijayan
2024-02-14 11:12     ` Sreenath Vijayan
2024-02-26  8:01       ` Sreenath Vijayan
2024-02-26  9:28       ` John Ogness
2024-02-07 14:12 ` Petr Mladek [this message]
2024-02-14 10:30   ` [PATCH v4 0/2] Add support to dump printk buffer to console " Sreenath Vijayan

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