It is a useful to be able to exercise kmsg_dumper implementations without
requiring a kernel oops or panic. This commit adds a new reason called
KMSG_DUMP_SOFT, which signifies that the system isn't really going down.
This logic is used in a later commit that introduces the netoops driver.
Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Notes:
It is also possible that we not introduce KMSG_DUMP_SOFT, and simply overload
the existing KMSG_DUMP_OOPS reason, but I figured that this would be cleaner.
---
include/linux/kmsg_dump.h | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h b/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h
index a229acc..0abc2d7 100644
--- a/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h
+++ b/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ enum kmsg_dump_reason {
KMSG_DUMP_OOPS,
KMSG_DUMP_PANIC,
KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC,
+ KMSG_DUMP_SOFT,
};
/**
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