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Secondly, it would also imply moving all the nested struct > definitions outside as well. I doubt this is something that we want for > the sched subsys. How the subsys is designed, out of my understanding, > is to keep these internal structs opaque outside of it. All the kmemdump module needs is a start and a length, correct? So the only tricky part is getting the length. One could just add a const variable that holds this information, or even better, a simple helper function to calculate that. Maybe someone else reading along has a better idea. Interestingly, runqueues is a percpu variable, which makes me wonder if what you had would work as intended (maybe it does, not sure). > > From my perspective it's much simpler and cleaner to just add the > kmemdump annotation macro inside the sched/core.c as it's done in my > patch. This macro translates to a noop if kmemdump is not selected. I really don't like how we are spreading kmemdump all over the kernel, and adding complexity with __section when really, all we need is a place to obtain a start and a length. So we should explore if there is anything easier possible. >> >>> >>> So I am unsure whether just removing the static and adding them into >>> header files would be more acceptable. >>> >>> Added in CC Cristoph Hellwig and Sergey Senozhatsky maybe they could >>> tell us directly whether they like or dislike this approach, as kmemdump >>> would be builtin and would not require exports. >>> >>> One other thing to mention is the fact that the printk code dynamically >>> allocates memory that would need to be registered. There is no mechanism >>> for kmemdump to know when this process has been completed (or even if it >>> was at all, because it happens on demand in certain conditions). >> >> If we are talking about memblock allocations, they sure are finished at >> the time ... the buddy is up. >> >> So it's just a matter of placing yourself late in the init stage where >> the buddy is already up and running. >> >> I assume dumping any dynamically allocated stuff through the buddy is >> out of the picture for now. >> > > The dumping mechanism needs to work for dynamically allocated stuff, and > right now, it works for e.g. printk, if the buffer is dynamically > allocated later on in the boot process. You are talking about the memblock_alloc() result, correct? Like new_log_buf = memblock_alloc(new_log_buf_len, LOG_ALIGN); The current version is always stored in static char *log_buf = __log_buf; Once early boot is done and memblock gets torn down, you can just use log_buf and be sure that it will not change anymore. > > To have this working outside of printk, it would be required to walk > through all the printk structs/allocations and select the required info. > Is this something that we want to do outside of printk ? I don't follow, please elaborate. How is e.g., log_buf_len_get() + log_buf_addr_get() not sufficient, given that you run your initialization after setup_log_buf() ? -- Cheers David / dhildenb