Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] printk: new ringbuffer implementation

Thomas Gleixner
2019-06-17T21:09:40Z

On Fri, 7 Jun 2019, John Ogness wrote:

Polite ping ....

> This is a follow-up RFC on the work to reimplement much of
> the core of printk. The original thread can be seen here[0].
>
> One of the results of that thread was that the work needs to
> be broken up into several pieces. A roadmap was laid out[1]
> and this RFC is for the base component of the first piece:
> a new ringbuffer implementation for printk.
>
> This series does not touch any existing printk code. It is
> only the ringbuffer implementation. I am particularly
> interested in feedback relating to the design of the
> ringbuffer and the use of memory barriers.
>
> The series also includes a test module that performs some
> heavy writer stress testing. I have successfully run these
> tests on a 16-core ARM64 platform.
>
> John Ogness
>
> [0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190212143003.48446-1-john.ogness@linutronix.de
> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87y35hn6ih.fsf@linutronix.de
>
> John Ogness (2):
> printk-rb: add a new printk ringbuffer implementation
> printk-rb: add test module
>
> Documentation/core-api/index.rst | 1 +
> Documentation/core-api/printk-ringbuffer.rst | 104 +++
> include/linux/printk_ringbuffer.h | 238 +++++++
> lib/Makefile | 2 +
> lib/printk_ringbuffer.c | 924 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> lib/test_prb.c | 237 +++++++
> 6 files changed, 1506 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/core-api/printk-ringbuffer.rst
> create mode 100644 include/linux/printk_ringbuffer.h
> create mode 100644 lib/printk_ringbuffer.c
> create mode 100644 lib/test_prb.c
>
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> 2.11.0
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