Hi John, > -----Original Message----- > Hi Kazu, > > Here is a patch adding full support for the new lockless printk > ringbuffer as it is currently being proposed. Note that the latest > version has not yet been submitted to LKML. I was waiting until I > finished tests with crash(8) and makedumpfile(8). > > The new ringbuffer will export all the necessary symbols, sizes, > and offsets in VMCOREINFO. > > Note that I created a separate printk.c for the iteration logic. That's good. > > Also note that I modified dwarf_info.c to support resolving > typedefs of typedefs. This was necessary in order to support > atomic_long_t and its "counter" member. OK, I see. > > I don't expect you to take the patch as-is, but I hope it can > provide some positive ground work for moving forward. OK. It looks already well-considered. Thank you very much for the patch! Kazu > > John Ogness (1): > printk: add support for lockless ringbuffer > > Makefile | 2 +- > dwarf_info.c | 36 +++++++++- > makedumpfile.c | 101 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- > makedumpfile.h | 25 +++++++ > printk.c | 177 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 5 files changed, 333 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 printk.c > > -- > 2.20.1 _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
