[PATCH v11 4/5] core: Add kernel message dumper to call on oopses and panics

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 14:09 +0200, Simon Kagstrom wrote:
> The core functionality is implemented as per Linus suggestion from
> 
>   http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2009-October/027620.html
> 
> (with the kmsg_dump implementation by Linus). A struct kmsg_dumper has
> been added which contains a callback to dump the kernel log buffers on
> crashes. The kmsg_dump function gets called from oops_exit() and panic()
> and invokes this callbacks with the crash reason.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom at netinsight.net>
> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom at netinsight.net>
> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at elte.hu>
> ---
> The bikeshed paint is drying:
> 
> ChangeLog:
> 	* (Ingo Molnar): Flatten lock use
> 	* (Artem, Aaro): Fix style issues
> 
>  include/linux/kmsg_dump.h |   44 ++++++++++++++++++
>  kernel/panic.c            |    3 +
>  kernel/printk.c           |  112 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 159 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/kmsg_dump.h

I wonder, via which tree this should go in. We are going to have mtdoops
depend on this. Should we go one of these ways:

   * this patch goes to one of Ingo's tip trees, so we can pull it and
     work on top.
   * we have Ingo's / Linus' acks, and this goes via the MTD tree.
?

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)