On Wed 2016-02-24 12:53:16, Kazimierz Krosman wrote:
> From: Marcin Niesluchowski <m.niesluc...@samsung.com>
>
> kmsg device provides operations on cyclic logging buffer used mainly
> by kernel but also in userspace by privileged processes.
>
> Additional kmsg devices keep the same log format but may be added
> dynamically with custom size.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marcin Niesluchowski <m.niesluc...@samsung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Osmialowski <p.osmialo...@samsung.com>
> [Rebased kmsg patch v5 on Linux 4.5-rc5]
> Signed-off-by: Kazimierz Krosman <k.kros...@samsung.com>
> diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
> index 3653a8e..b99403b 100644
> --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
> +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
> @@ -584,9 +595,11 @@ ssize_t msg_print_ext_body(char *buf, size_t size,
> void log_buf_kexec_setup(void)
> {
> VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(log_buf);
> - VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(log_buf_len);
> - VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(log_first_idx);
> - VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(log_next_idx);
> + VMCOREINFO_STRUCT_SIZE(log_buffer);
> + VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(log_buffer, buf);
> + VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(log_buffer, len);
> + VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(log_buffer, first_idx);
> + VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(log_buffer, next_idx);
This breaks makedumpfile, crash and possibly other tools
that use this information to access the log buffer.
Best Regards,
Petr
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