Re: [PATCHv7 5/8] printk: report lost messages in printk safe/nmi contexts

From: Petr Mladek
Date: Thu Feb 02 2017 - 11:13:46 EST


On Thu 2017-02-02 09:34:09, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Feb 2017 11:02:57 +0900
> Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On (02/01/17 11:37), Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > This looks fine, but I'm curious if you tested it. That is, added a
> > > bunch of printks to overflow the buffer. IIRC, I did it to the original
> > > nmi code. If you haven't you may want to just to make sure it works. I
> > > can also test it too if I get some time.

I have tested it and actually found a bug. I was lucky because it was
a cornercase. It is already fixed upstream by the commit
4a998e322abc935e ("printk/NMI: fix up handling of the full nmi
log buffer").

> Please note how you tested it in your change log. It's not really a
> requirement, and you don't really have to do it. But it helps people
> have warm fuzzies about the code. I'm trying to do this in the future
> in my own work too.

Goot to know.

Best Regards,
Petr