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From: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH printk-rework 08/12] printk: introduce a kmsg_dump iterator
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2021 14:38:42 +0106	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eehzkj5x.fsf@jogness.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YBf/XUmgflhMHtBx@alley>

On 2021-02-01, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> wrote:
>> Rather than store the iterator information into the registered
>> kmsg_dump structure, create a separate iterator structure. The
>> kmsg_dump_iter structure can reside on the stack of the caller,
>> thus allowing lockless use of the kmsg_dump functions.
>> 
>> This is in preparation for removal of @logbuf_lock.
>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h b/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h
>> index 76cc4122d08e..ecc98f549d93 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h
>> @@ -29,6 +29,18 @@ enum kmsg_dump_reason {
>>  	KMSG_DUMP_MAX
>>  };
>>  
>> +/**
>> + * struct kmsg_dumper_iter - iterator for kernel crash message dumper
>> + * @active:	Flag that specifies if this is currently dumping
>> + * @cur_seq:	The record to dump (private)
>> + * @next_seq:	The first record of the next block (private)
>
> Just to be sure. This description should get update if you agree with
> the alternative one in the 1st patch.

Yes, I assumed so and adjusted my preparation-v2 series accordingly.

John

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-01 13:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-26 21:15 [PATCH printk-rework 00/12] printk: remove logbuf_lock John Ogness
2021-01-26 21:15 ` [PATCH printk-rework 01/12] printk: kmsg_dump: remove unused fields John Ogness
2021-01-26 21:15 ` [PATCH printk-rework 02/12] printk: refactor kmsg_dump_get_buffer() John Ogness
2021-01-26 21:15 ` [PATCH printk-rework 03/12] printk: consolidate kmsg_dump_get_buffer/syslog_print_all code John Ogness
     [not found]   ` <YBQgTQYTA5p6Wgj6@alley>
2021-02-01  9:49     ` John Ogness
2021-02-02 12:31       ` Petr Mladek
2021-01-26 21:15 ` [PATCH printk-rework 04/12] printk: define CONSOLE_LOG_MAX in printk.h John Ogness
     [not found]   ` <YBQtbKrdwUAZQB9v@alley>
2021-02-01  8:24     ` LINE_MAX: was: " John Ogness
2021-02-02 11:22       ` Petr Mladek
2021-01-26 21:15 ` [PATCH printk-rework 05/12] printk: use seqcount_latch for clear_seq John Ogness
2021-01-26 21:15 ` [PATCH printk-rework 06/12] printk: use atomic64_t for devkmsg_user.seq John Ogness
2021-01-26 21:15 ` [PATCH printk-rework 07/12] printk: add syslog_lock John Ogness
2021-02-01 12:26   ` Petr Mladek
2021-02-01 13:11     ` John Ogness
2021-02-02 12:50       ` Petr Mladek
2021-01-26 21:15 ` [PATCH printk-rework 08/12] printk: introduce a kmsg_dump iterator John Ogness
2021-02-01 13:17   ` Petr Mladek
2021-02-01 13:32     ` John Ogness [this message]
2021-01-26 21:15 ` [PATCH printk-rework 09/12] um: synchronize kmsg_dumper John Ogness
2021-02-01 10:26   ` Petr Mladek
2021-02-01 14:15   ` Petr Mladek
2021-02-01 16:51     ` John Ogness
2021-02-01 16:54       ` Richard Weinberger
2021-02-01 20:25         ` John Ogness
2021-02-01 20:40           ` Richard Weinberger
2021-02-02 13:26       ` Petr Mladek
2021-01-26 21:15 ` [PATCH printk-rework 10/12] hv: " John Ogness
2021-01-27 21:32   ` Michael Kelley
2021-02-01 10:56     ` John Ogness
2021-01-26 21:15 ` [PATCH printk-rework 11/12] printk: remove logbuf_lock John Ogness
2021-02-02  9:15   ` Petr Mladek
2021-02-02 11:41     ` John Ogness
2021-02-02 16:11       ` Petr Mladek
2021-01-26 21:15 ` [PATCH printk-rework 12/12] printk: kmsg_dump: remove _nolock() variants John Ogness
2021-02-02  9:45   ` Petr Mladek

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