On Sat 2020-09-19 00:40:19, John Ogness wrote: > The majority of the size of a descriptor is taken up by meta data, > which is often not of interest to the ringbuffer (for example, > when performing state checks). Since descriptors are often > temporarily stored on the stack, keeping their size minimal will > help reduce stack pressure. > > Rather than embedding the printk_info into the descriptor, create > a separate printk_info array. The index of a descriptor in the > descriptor array corresponds to the printk_info with the same > index in the printk_info array. The rules for validity of a > printk_info match the existing rules for the data blocks: the > descriptor must be in a consistent state. > > Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> Best Regards, Petr _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
