On Fri 2015-07-03 12:49:50, Marcin Niesluchowski wrote: > kmsg device provides operations on cyclic logging buffer used mainly > by kernel but also in userspace by privileged processes. > > Additional kmsg devices keep the same log format but may be added > dynamically with custom size. > > Signed-off-by: Marcin Niesluchowski <m.niesluchow@xxxxxxxxxxx> > --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c > +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c > @@ -234,29 +234,37 @@ struct printk_log { > u8 level:3; /* syslog level */ > }; Just in case, this is accepted. If you already touch the API, I would suggest to rename struct printk_log to printk_msg. The current name is pretty misleading. > +struct log_buffer { > +#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK > + struct list_head list; /* kmsg as head of the list */ > + char *buf; /* cyclic log buffer */ > + u32 len; /* buffer length */ > + wait_queue_head_t wait; /* wait queue for kmsg buffer */ > +#endif > /* > - * The logbuf_lock protects kmsg buffer, indices, counters. This can be taken > - * within the scheduler's rq lock. It must be released before calling > - * console_unlock() or anything else that might wake up a process. > + * The lock protects kmsg buffer, indices, counters. This can be taken within > + * the scheduler's rq lock. It must be released before calling console_unlock() > + * or anything else that might wake up a process. > */ > -static DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(logbuf_lock); > + raw_spinlock_t lock; > + u64 first_seq; /* sequence number of the first record stored */ > + u32 first_idx; /* index of the first record stored */ > +/* sequence number of the next record to store */ > + u64 next_seq; > +#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK > + u32 next_idx; /* index of the next record to store */ > + int mode; /* mode of device (kmsg_sys only) */ > + int minor; /* minor representing buffer device */ > +#endif > +}; > @@ -1069,10 +1253,10 @@ const struct file_operations kmsg_fops = { > */ > void log_buf_kexec_setup(void) > { > - VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(log_buf); > - VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(log_buf_len); > - VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(log_first_idx); > - VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(log_next_idx); > + VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(log_buf.buf); > + VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(log_buf.len); > + VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(log_buf.first_idx); > + VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(log_buf.next_idx); Have you tried to use this in crash or some other utility, please? I guess that it will need to be exported a similar way like struct printk_log, something like: VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(log_buf); VMCOREINFO_STRUCT_SIZE(log_buffer); VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(log_buffer, buf); VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(log_buffer, len); VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(log_buffer, first_idx); VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(log_buffer, next_idx); Best Regards, Petr -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html