Re: [GIT pull] printk updates for 4.15

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Tue, 14 Nov 2017, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 2:50 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Something like the untested patch below should do the storage and converts
> > the primary timestamp from local_clock() to clock monotonic.
> 
> This  may work.
> 
> > -       u64 ts_nsec;            /* timestamp in nanoseconds */
> > +       /* Timestamps in nanoseconds */
> > +       union {
> > +               u64                     ts_nsec;
> > +               struct timestamps       ts;
> > +       };
> 
> But I'd skip the union, and just search-and-replace the ts_nsec ->
> ts.mono. You did that in at least one place anyway.
> 
> Because as it is, that's just too subtle and hard to read. Don't make
> it worse by having a magical "ts_nsec is also ts.mono, but you have to
> look in two different files to see that.
> 
> That file is messy enough as-is.

True. I already replaced all of them except this one:

@@ -1022,6 +1026,7 @@ void log_buf_vmcoreinfo_setup(void)
         */
        VMCOREINFO_STRUCT_SIZE(printk_log);
        VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(printk_log, ts_nsec);
+       VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(printk_log, ts);
        VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(printk_log, len);
        VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(printk_log, text_len);
        VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(printk_log, dict_len);

If I remove ts_nsec completely, then the VMCORE info changes and that would
break existing tools because they search for ts_nsec and fail....

Thanks,

	tglx