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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: "simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net" <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net>,
	"David.Woodhouse@intel.com" <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>,
	"anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net"
	<anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net>,
	"Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com" <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>,
	"kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com" <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	"jason.wessel@windriver.com" <jason.wessel@windriver.com>,
	"jslaby@suse.cz" <jslaby@suse.cz>,
	"jmorris@namei.org" <jmorris@namei.org>,
	"eparis@redhat.com" <eparis@redhat.com>,
	"hch@lst.de" <hch@lst.de>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net" 
	<dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Satoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@hds.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][Patch] Adding kmsg_dump() to reboot/halt/poweroff/emergency_restart path
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:33:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101018153350.18b68c50.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5C4C569E8A4B9B42A84A977CF070A35B2C11B4B724@USINDEVS01.corp.hds.com>

On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:24:11 -0400
Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Final messages from reboot, halt and poweroff aren't output to disk because klogd/syslogd 
> has been killed and root file system has been turned read-only.
> 
> Final messages from emergency_restart aren't output to disk as well because system may
> reboot before klogd/syslogd outputs messages to disk.
> 
> Therefore, it is better to put kmsg_dumper in reboot/halt/poweroff/emergency_restart path.
> Any comments/advices are welcome.
> 

I don't get it.

What actual problem are we solving here?  Why is the current code
inadequate?  It would help to demonstrate some use-case and to explain
how the situation improved with this patch.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-18 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-18 22:24 [RFC][Patch] Adding kmsg_dump() to reboot/halt/poweroff/emergency_restart path Seiji Aguchi
2010-10-18 22:33 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-10-27 19:44   ` Seiji Aguchi
2010-11-03 21:50     ` Aaron Durbin
2010-11-04  7:20       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-10-19  8:52 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-10-19  8:51   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-10-27 23:35     ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-28 19:58       ` Artem Bityutskiy

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