[PATCH v1 03/12] kmsg_dumper: Introduce a new 'SOFT' dump reason

Mike Waychison
2010-11-03T01:30:22Z

It is a useful to be able to exercise kmsg_dumper implementations without
requiring a kernel oops or panic. This commit adds a new reason called
KMSG_DUMP_SOFT, which signifies that the system isn't really going down.

This logic is used in a later commit that introduces the netoops driver.

Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
---

It is also possible that we not introduce KMSG_DUMP_SOFT, and simply overload
the existing KMSG_DUMP_OOPS reason, but I figured that this would be cleaner.

TODO: Make sure mtdoops and ramoops do something useful with this flag?
---
include/linux/kmsg_dump.h | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h b/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h
index a229acc..0abc2d7 100644
--- a/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h
+++ b/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ enum kmsg_dump_reason {
KMSG_DUMP_OOPS,
KMSG_DUMP_PANIC,
KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC,
+ KMSG_DUMP_SOFT,
};

/**