From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
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: synchronization model: was: Re: [PATCH printk-rework 09/14] printk: introduce a kmsg_dump iterator
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 10:48:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YDjD+C29unmb/psK@alley> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877dmvxm2i.fsf@jogness.linutronix.de>
On Fri 2021-02-26 09:36:21, John Ogness wrote:
> On 2021-02-25, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> wrote:
> > IMHO, a better design would be:
> >
> > 1. dumper->dump() callback should have only one parameter @reason.
> > The callback should define its own iterator, buffer, and
> > do the dump.
>
> Unfortunately this won't work because drivers/mtd/mtdoops.c is using the
> dumper parameter for container_of().
Ah, I have missed this.
mtdoops code is generic even though everything is static so that there
is always only one instance. But this use case makes sense in general.
> So we will need 2 parameters: dumper and reason.
>
> Can we agree to proceed with 2 parameters in the callback?
Yup, go for it.
> > 2. dumpe->dump() callback should synchronize the entire operation
> > using its own locks. Only the callback knows whether it is
> > safe to do more dumps in parallel. Only the callback knows
> > whether it is called only during panic() when no locks
> > are needed.
>
> Agreed. I implemented this part for the v3 series.
Great!
Best Regards,
Petr
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-26 9:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-18 8:18 [PATCH printk-rework 00/14] printk: remove logbuf_lock John Ogness
2021-02-18 8:18 ` [PATCH printk-rework 01/14] printk: limit second loop of syslog_print_all John Ogness
2021-02-18 16:15 ` Petr Mladek
2021-02-18 8:18 ` [PATCH printk-rework 02/14] printk: kmsg_dump: remove unused fields John Ogness
2021-02-18 16:18 ` Petr Mladek
2021-02-18 8:18 ` [PATCH printk-rework 03/14] printk: refactor kmsg_dump_get_buffer() John Ogness
2021-02-18 8:18 ` [PATCH printk-rework 04/14] printk: consolidate kmsg_dump_get_buffer/syslog_print_all code John Ogness
2021-02-19 12:28 ` Petr Mladek
2021-02-18 8:18 ` [PATCH printk-rework 05/14] printk: introduce CONSOLE_LOG_MAX for improved multi-line support John Ogness
2021-02-19 12:44 ` Petr Mladek
2021-02-18 8:18 ` [PATCH printk-rework 06/14] printk: use seqcount_latch for clear_seq John Ogness
2021-02-18 8:18 ` [PATCH printk-rework 07/14] printk: use atomic64_t for devkmsg_user.seq John Ogness
2021-02-19 12:59 ` Petr Mladek
2021-02-18 8:18 ` [PATCH printk-rework 08/14] printk: add syslog_lock John Ogness
2021-02-19 13:30 ` Petr Mladek
2021-02-19 14:45 ` John Ogness
2021-02-19 16:33 ` John Ogness
2021-02-21 21:39 ` Helge Deller
2021-02-22 16:28 ` Petr Mladek
2021-02-23 12:22 ` Helge Deller
2021-02-23 14:23 ` Petr Mladek
2021-02-23 14:45 ` Helge Deller
2021-02-22 16:05 ` Petr Mladek
2021-02-22 16:43 ` John Ogness
2021-02-23 14:38 ` Petr Mladek
2021-02-18 8:18 ` [PATCH printk-rework 09/14] printk: introduce a kmsg_dump iterator John Ogness
2021-02-19 15:56 ` Petr Mladek
2021-02-19 16:50 ` Michael Kelley
2021-02-19 17:57 ` synchronization model: was: " Petr Mladek
2021-02-24 12:27 ` John Ogness
2021-02-24 15:40 ` John Ogness
2021-02-25 12:33 ` Petr Mladek
2021-02-26 8:36 ` John Ogness
2021-02-26 9:48 ` Petr Mladek [this message]
2021-02-18 8:18 ` [PATCH printk-rework 10/14] um: synchronize kmsg_dumper John Ogness
2021-02-18 8:18 ` [PATCH printk-rework 11/14] printk: remove logbuf_lock John Ogness
2021-02-23 11:44 ` Petr Mladek
2021-02-18 8:18 ` [PATCH printk-rework 12/14] printk: kmsg_dump: remove _nolock() variants John Ogness
2021-02-23 11:51 ` Petr Mladek
2021-02-18 8:18 ` [PATCH printk-rework 13/14] printk: kmsg_dump: use kmsg_dump_rewind John Ogness
2021-02-23 11:53 ` Petr Mladek
2021-02-18 8:18 ` [PATCH printk-rework 14/14] printk: console: remove unnecessary safe buffer usage John Ogness
2021-02-23 12:55 ` Petr Mladek
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