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

[Mike Travis]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * 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

Sure, I can do that.

THanks,
Mike
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