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Re: [PATCHv7 5/8] printk: report lost messages in printk safe/nmi contexts

From Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCHv7 5/8] printk: report lost messages in printk safe/nmi contexts
Date 2017-02-03 04:20 +0100
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On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 10:57:57 +0900
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> wrote:
ell. sure, no objections, but in this particular case it's hardly
possible
> to hit all of those problems within a reasonable time. so what I did was just
> a bunch of dirty hacks to provoke the problems. something like this
> 
> 	extern int XXX;
> 
> 	vprintk_emit()
> 	{
> 		spin_lock(&logbuf_lock);
> 
> 			//
> 			// in various places
> 			//
> 			if (XXX == 1) {
> 				WARN_ON(1);
> 			}
> 
> 		spin_unlock(&logbuf_lock);
> 	}
> 
> and I set/clear that XXX from one of sysfs attrs... yeah, I know...
> but it does what I want. so I'm not really sure I want to note this
> in the change log. am I wrong?

No you are not. But just seeing this in email does help. And yeah, this
is the type of testing that I do as well on things like this. No need
to put it in the change log.

-- Steve

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Re: [PATCHv7 5/8] printk: report lost messages in printk safe/nmi  contexts Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2017-02-01 17:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCHv7 5/8] printk: report lost messages in printk safe/nmi  contexts Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-02-02 03:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCHv7 5/8] printk: report lost messages in printk safe/nmi  contexts Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2017-02-02 15:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCHv7 5/8] printk: report lost messages in printk safe/nmi  contexts Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> - 2017-02-02 17:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCHv7 5/8] printk: report lost messages in printk safe/nmi  contexts Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-02-03 03:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCHv7 5/8] printk: report lost messages in printk safe/nmi  contexts Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2017-02-03 04:20 +0100

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