Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Kconfig: enlarge printk buffer size limit

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:27:48 +0200 Artem Bityutskiy wrote:

> From: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@nokia.com>
> Subject: [RFC] [PATCH] Kconfig: enlarge printk buffer size limit
> 
> This patch makes the upper kernel ring buffer size limit larger. It
> is often very handy to have huge ring-buffer for debugging purposes,
> when the subsystem which is being debugged produces large amount of
> useful output.
> 
> Index: ubi-2.6.git/lib/Kconfig.debug
> ===================================================================
> --- ubi-2.6.git.orig/lib/Kconfig.debug
> +++ ubi-2.6.git/lib/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ config DEBUG_KERNEL
>  
>  config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
>  	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" if DEBUG_KERNEL
> -	range 12 21
> +	range 12 26
>  	default 17 if S390 || LOCKDEP
>  	default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64
>  	default 15 if SMP

That's simple enough, but you could also just add
	log_buf_len=huge_number
or
	log_buf_len=500M
or
	log_buf_len=1G
(for megabytes or gigabytes) to the kernel boot command line.


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~Randy
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