Re: [PATCH] [1/2] kernel error reporting (revised)

James Morris
2003-07-18T01:38:35Z

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Jim Keniston wrote:

> 3. Given the above, what should the evlog.c caller do when
> kernel_error_event_iov() returns -EINPROGRESS?
> a. Nothing. Figure the packet will probably get logged.
> b. Just to be safe, report it via printk, the same way we report dropped
> packets.
> We currently do (a). (b) would mean that every event logged from IRQ
> context would be cc-ed to printk.

I don't think this irq detection logic should be added at all here, let
the caller reschedule its logging if running in irq context.

- James
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