Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:37:46 -0700 | From | Mike Travis <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] printk: Allocate kernel log buffer earlier v2 |
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Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> wrote: > >> Subject: printk: Allocate kernel log buffer earlier v2 >> >> On larger systems, because of the numerous ACPI, Bootmem and EFI >> messages, the static log buffer overflows before the larger one >> specified by the log_buf_len param is allocated. Minimize the >> overflow by allocating the new log buffer as soon as possible. >> >> The allocation method is passed in as an argument to make >> backporting to "pre-memblock" kernels easier. > > Hm, all that allocation pointer magic looks a tad too complex and non-obvious. > > Why not just make it as simple and obvious as possible for the current kernel - > and we can still mark it -stable and you backport it to the non-memblock > kernel? That keeps compatibility complexity out of upstream ... > > Thanks, > > Ingo
Sure, I can do that.
THanks, Mike
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