logged_chars would be set to 0 by `dmesg -c`, but we want to get the full dmesg after crash. So instead of using logged_chars directly, we calculate it by ourselves.
Now logged_chars is set to the minimum of log_end and log_buf_len, which is coherent to how crash utility deals with dmesg length. Signed-off-by: Dangyi Liu <[email protected]> --- vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c b/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c index f47ee11..ec2570f 100644 --- a/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c +++ b/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c @@ -540,6 +540,9 @@ static void dump_dmesg_legacy(int fd) exit(53); } + // `dmesg -c` would set logged_chars to 0, then we cannot get a full dmesg. + logged_chars = log_end < log_buf_len ? log_end : log_buf_len; + write_to_stdout(buf + (log_buf_len - logged_chars), logged_chars); } -- 2.4.3 _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
