Re: [PATCH]: add dmesg log symbols to /proc/vmcoreinfo lists

[Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:12:11AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:22:56 -0500 Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:09:58AM -0500, Neil Horman wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 09:15:51AM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 04:21:27PM -0500, Neil Horman wrote:
> > > > > Hey all-
> > > > > 	It would be nice to be able to extract the dmesg log from a vmcore file
> > > > > without needing to keep the debug symbols for the running kernel handy all the
> > > > > time.  We have a facility to do this in /proc/vmcore.  This patch adds the
> > > > > log_buf and log_end symbols to the vmcoreinfo area so that tools (like
> > > > > makedumpfile) can easily extract the dmesg logs from a vmcore image.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > It would be nice to get dmesg log if debug symbols are not around. Can't
> > > > we use System.map for getting symbol addresses? vmcoreinfo had started
> > > > small and seems to be growing now. I am thinking down the line will making
> > > > use of System.map for such cases make sense?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > System.map only include exported and public symbols.  log_buf and log_end are
> > > static, and not reported in the System.map.  Its a nice idea, but not
> > > comprehensive for everything in the kernel.
> > > 
> > > ><snip>
> > > > 
> > > > Will it be an issue if we make log_buf and log_end non static and directly
> > > > access these in kexec.c?
> > > > 
> > > I had considered that, but was a bit hesitant to do so, since it exposes the
> > > internal implementation of the dmesg buffer.  In the event someone disables
> > > CONFIG_PRINTK, thats just more code we need to ifdef.  With this implementation
> > > we just stub out the log_buf_setup function, and let that be that.  It seems
> > > more consice to me this way.
> > > 
> > 
> > Makes sense to me.
> > 
> > Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
> > 
> 
> I rewrote the title to
> 
> 	kexec: add dmesg log symbols to /proc/vmcoreinfo lists
> 
> it's nice to identify which subsystem is responsible for a patch.
> 
> I also did all the below.  Please check it.  (Is anyone else reading all
> this stuff??)

These look fine to me. Unfortunately they don't apply to the version
of Linus' tree that I have checked out and I'm away from net access
at this moment (though obviously not by the time this message reaches you).
I'll update my tree and check once I'm back online.

Eric Biederman usually watches kexec stuff. I'm pretty sure he
is on the kexec mailing list, but I've CCed him anyway.

> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> 
> - switch didnt-need-to-be-a-macro to inline
> 
> - Remove unneeded ifdefs (we already did that in the header)
> 
> - repair bouncy enter key
> 
> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
> Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> ---
> 
>  include/linux/kernel.h |    5 ++++-
>  kernel/kexec.c         |    2 --
>  kernel/printk.c        |    1 -
>  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff -puN include/linux/kernel.h~kexec-add-dmesg-log-symbols-to-proc-vmcoreinfo-lists-fix include/linux/kernel.h
> --- a/include/linux/kernel.h~kexec-add-dmesg-log-symbols-to-proc-vmcoreinfo-lists-fix
> +++ a/include/linux/kernel.h
> @@ -254,7 +254,10 @@ static inline int printk_ratelimit(void)
>  static inline bool printk_timed_ratelimit(unsigned long *caller_jiffies, \
>  					  unsigned int interval_msec)	\
>  		{ return false; }
> -#define log_buf_kexec_setup() do {} while(0)
> +
> +static inline void log_buf_kexec_setup(void)
> +{
> +}
>  #endif
>  
>  extern int printk_needs_cpu(int cpu);
> diff -puN kernel/kexec.c~kexec-add-dmesg-log-symbols-to-proc-vmcoreinfo-lists-fix kernel/kexec.c
> --- a/kernel/kexec.c~kexec-add-dmesg-log-symbols-to-proc-vmcoreinfo-lists-fix
> +++ a/kernel/kexec.c
> @@ -1409,9 +1409,7 @@ static int __init crash_save_vmcoreinfo_
>  	VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(list_head, prev);
>  	VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(vm_struct, addr);
>  	VMCOREINFO_LENGTH(zone.free_area, MAX_ORDER);
> -#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK
>  	log_buf_kexec_setup();
> -#endif
>  	VMCOREINFO_LENGTH(free_area.free_list, MIGRATE_TYPES);
>  	VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(NR_FREE_PAGES);
>  	VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(PG_lru);
> diff -puN kernel/printk.c~kexec-add-dmesg-log-symbols-to-proc-vmcoreinfo-lists-fix kernel/printk.c
> --- a/kernel/printk.c~kexec-add-dmesg-log-symbols-to-proc-vmcoreinfo-lists-fix
> +++ a/kernel/printk.c
> @@ -143,7 +143,6 @@ void log_buf_kexec_setup(void)
>  	VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(log_end);
>  }
>  
> -
>  static int __init log_buf_len_setup(char *str)
>  {
>  	unsigned size = memparse(str, &str);
> _

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