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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
To: He Zhe <zhe.he@windriver.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
	pmladek@suse.com, sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: Fix unnecessary returning broken pipe error from devkmsg_read
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 10:10:18 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190924011018.GA3864@jagdpanzerIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <027b2f0d-b7dc-4e76-22a7-ce80c9a0aade@windriver.com>

On (09/23/19 18:45), He Zhe wrote:
> I think it is NOT necessary to inform user-space, when it just wants to read
> from the beginning of the buffer, that the buffer has changed since the time
> point when it issues the action of reading.

The point here is not to notify user space that the logbuf has changed,
but to notify user space that unseen messages are gone, we lost them,
user space will never read them.

	-ss

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-09-24  1:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-18 13:31 [PATCH] printk: Fix unnecessary returning broken pipe error from devkmsg_read zhe.he
2019-09-23 10:05 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-23 10:45   ` He Zhe
2019-09-23 11:39     ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-23 14:11       ` He Zhe
2019-09-23 19:58         ` John Ogness
2019-09-24  1:10     ` Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]

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