Simon,

Could you help to review this patch?

Thanks,
Dangyi Liu

On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 17:15 +0800, Dangyi Liu wrote:
> logged_chars would be set to 0 by `dmesg -c`, but full dmesg is
> useful
> for debugging. 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, as
> the same logic as crash utility is using.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dangyi Liu <[email protected]>
> Cc: Dave Young <[email protected]>
> ---
> Changes:
>   v1->v2: Update comment and commit message.
>   v2->v3: Adjust maximum line length
> 
>  vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c b/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-
> dmesg.c
> index f47ee11..0364636 100644
> --- a/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c
> +++ b/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c
> @@ -540,6 +540,12 @@ static void dump_dmesg_legacy(int fd)
>               exit(53);
>       }
>  
> +     /*
> +      * To collect full dmesg including the part before `dmesg
> -c` is useful
> +      * for later debugging. Use same logic as what crash utility
> is using.
> +      */
> +     logged_chars = log_end < log_buf_len ? log_end :
> log_buf_len;
> +
>       write_to_stdout(buf + (log_buf_len -  logged_chars),
> logged_chars);
>  }
>  

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