From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Michael Holzheu <holzheu2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru, mschwid2@de.ltcfwd.linux.ibm.com,
heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using kevent for event logging?
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:17:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070216101742.b3877aca.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070216155708.589cd47a.holzheu2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:57:08 +0100 Michael Holzheu <holzheu2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hallo Evgeniy,
>
> On s390 we are looking for a good mechanism to notify userspace
> about kernel events. Currently such events are handled with printks
> in most cases. There are automation tools, which want to automatically
> react on kernel events. To get the event information, these tools are
> parsing printks, which is not a really good mechanism for that
> purpose.
>
> When I read about kevents, I was wondering, if it could be used to solve
> this problem. E.g. it would be possible to put an event number into a
> kevent and provide another interface to get the complete event data.
>
Wouldn't one simply transport the info across netlink, use kevent (or
select/poll/whatever) for readiness notification?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-16 18:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-16 14:57 Using kevent for event logging? Michael Holzheu
2007-02-16 15:06 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-02-16 17:33 ` Michael Holzheu
2007-02-16 17:59 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-02-16 18:17 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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