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| author | John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> | 2020-09-14 15:33:53 +0300 |
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| committer | Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> | 2020-09-15 17:35:27 +0300 |
| commit | 4cfc7258f876a7feba673ac6d050f525b39cc84c (patch) | |
| tree | c656d70055bc6421b5f61497b879981451af9961 /Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/gdbmacros.txt | |
| parent | 10dcb06d40411a73e1ae111717e9a987bb760313 (diff) | |
| download | linux-4cfc7258f876a7feba673ac6d050f525b39cc84c.tar.xz | |
printk: ringbuffer: add finalization/extension support
Add support for extending the newest data block. For this, introduce
a new finalization state (desc_finalized) denoting a committed
descriptor that cannot be extended.
Until a record is finalized, a writer can reopen that record to
append new data. Reopening a record means transitioning from the
desc_committed state back to the desc_reserved state.
A writer can explicitly finalize a record if there is no intention
of extending it. Also, records are automatically finalized when a
new record is reserved. This relieves writers of needing to
explicitly finalize while also making such records available to
readers sooner. (Readers can only traverse finalized records.)
Four new memory barrier pairs are introduced. Two of them are
insignificant additions (data_realloc:A/desc_read:D and
data_realloc:A/data_push_tail:B) because they are alternate path
memory barriers that exactly match the purpose, pairing, and
context of the two existing memory barrier pairs they provide an
alternate path for. The other two new memory barrier pairs are
significant additions:
desc_reopen_last:A / _prb_commit:B - When reopening a descriptor,
ensure the state transitions back to desc_reserved before
fully trusting the descriptor data.
_prb_commit:B / desc_reserve:D - When committing a descriptor,
ensure the state transitions to desc_committed before checking
the head ID to see if the descriptor needs to be finalized.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200914123354.832-6-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/gdbmacros.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/gdbmacros.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/gdbmacros.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/gdbmacros.txt index 8f533b751c46..94fabb165abf 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/gdbmacros.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/gdbmacros.txt @@ -297,6 +297,7 @@ end define dmesg # definitions from kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.h set var $desc_committed = 1 + set var $desc_finalized = 2 set var $desc_sv_bits = sizeof(long) * 8 set var $desc_flags_shift = $desc_sv_bits - 2 set var $desc_flags_mask = 3 << $desc_flags_shift @@ -313,7 +314,7 @@ define dmesg # skip non-committed record set var $state = 3 & ($desc->state_var.counter >> $desc_flags_shift) - if ($state == $desc_committed) + if ($state == $desc_committed || $state == $desc_finalized) dump_record $desc $prev_flags set var $prev_flags = $desc->info.flags end |