[PATCH v5 0/4] printk: replace ringbuffer

Sergey Senozhatsky sergey.senozhatsky at gmail.com
Sun Jul 12 22:23:56 EDT 2020


On (20/07/10 10:28), Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Thu 2020-07-09 15:29:40, John Ogness wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Here is a v5 for the first series to rework the printk
> > subsystem. The v4 is here [0]. This first series
> > only replaces the existing ringbuffer implementation. No locking
> > is removed. The semantics/behavior of printk are kept the same
> > except for a minor optimization that is reverted (patch 3).
> > 
> > John Ogness (4):
> >   crash: add VMCOREINFO macro to define offset in a struct declared by
> >     typedef
> >   printk: add lockless ringbuffer
> >   Revert "printk: lock/unlock console only for new logbuf entries"
> >   printk: use the lockless ringbuffer
> 
> The patchset is committed in printk/linux.git, branch printk-rework.

FWIW,
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky at gmail.com>

Thank you.

	-ss



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