1. 08 May, 2012 8 commits
  2. 07 May, 2012 4 commits
    • Kay Sievers's avatar
      printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-length record buffer · 7ff9554b
      Kay Sievers authored
      - Record-based stream instead of the traditional byte stream
        buffer. All records carry a 64 bit timestamp, the syslog facility
        and priority in the record header.
      
      - Records consume almost the same amount, sometimes less memory than
        the traditional byte stream buffer (if printk_time is enabled). The record
        header is 16 bytes long, plus some padding bytes at the end if needed.
        The byte-stream buffer needed 3 chars for the syslog prefix, 15 char for
        the timestamp and a newline.
      
      - Buffer management is based on message sequence numbers. When records
        need to be discarded, the reading heads move on to the next full
        record. Unlike the byte-stream buffer, no old logged lines get
        truncated or partly overwritten by new ones. Sequence numbers also
        allow consumers of the log stream to get notified if any message in
        the stream they are about to read gets discarded during the time
        of reading.
      
      - Better buffered IO support for KERN_CONT continuation lines, when printk()
        is called multiple times for a single line. The use of KERN_CONT is now
        mandatory to use continuation; a few places in the kernel need trivial fixes
        here. The buffering could possibly be extended to per-cpu variables to allow
        better thread-safety for multiple printk() invocations for a single line.
      
      - Full-featured syslog facility value support. Different facilities
        can tag their messages. All userspace-injected messages enforce a
        facility value > 0 now, to be able to reliably distinguish them from
        the kernel-generated messages. Independent subsystems like a
        baseband processor running its own firmware, or a kernel-related
        userspace process can use their own unique facility values. Multiple
        independent log streams can co-exist that way in the same
        buffer. All share the same global sequence number counter to ensure
        proper ordering (and interleaving) and to allow the consumers of the
        log to reliably correlate the events from different facilities.
      Tested-by: default avatarWilliam Douglas <william.douglas@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarKay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      7ff9554b
    • Paul Gortmaker's avatar
      powerpc: fix compile fail in hugetlb cmdline parsing · 89528127
      Paul Gortmaker authored
      Commit 9fb48c74
      
          "params: add 3rd arg to option handler callback signature"
      
      added an extra arg to the function, but didn't catch all the use
      cases needing it, causing this compile fail in mpc85xx_defconfig:
      
       arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c:316:4: error: passing argument 7 of
       'parse_args' from incompatible pointer type [-Werror]
      
       include/linux/moduleparam.h:317:12: note: expected
      	 'int (*)(char *, char *, const char *)' but argument is of type
      	 'int (*)(char *, char *)'
      
      This function has no need to printk out the "doing" value, so
      just add the arg as an "unused".
      
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
      Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
      Cc: Becky Bruce <beckyb@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      89528127
    • Zhi Yong Wu's avatar
      9ff1f838
    • Greg Kroah-Hartman's avatar
      Revert "dynamic_debug: remove unneeded includes" · fef15d2f
      Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
      This reverts commit 04db6e5f.
      
      Odds are, we really don't want to revert all of these, and need to be
      more careful in the future to make sure we don't break the build of
      other arches.
      Reported-by: default avatarStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
      Cc: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      fef15d2f
  3. 05 May, 2012 3 commits
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  6. 01 May, 2012 1 commit
  7. 30 Apr, 2012 7 commits