Re: [PATCH 2/2] printk: Allocate kernel log buffer earlier v2

[Ingo Molnar]

* Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx> 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
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