Re: [PATCH] printk: kmsg_dump: Mark registered flag as private

[Sergey Senozhatsky]

On (03/10/19 21:03), Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:
> The 'registered' flag is internally used by kmsg_dump_register()
> and kmsg_dump_unregister() to track multiple registrations of the
> same dumper.
> 
> It's protected by printk's internal dump_list_lock, and must thus
> be accessed only from there. Mark it as private.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/kmsg_dump.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h b/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h
> index 2e7a1e032c71..7c08cb58259a 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h
> @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ enum kmsg_dump_reason {
>   * @dump:	Call into dumping code which will retrieve the data with
>   * 		through the record iterator
>   * @max_reason:	filter for highest reason number that should be dumped
> - * @registered:	Flag that specifies if this is already registered
> + * @registered:	Flag that specifies if this is already registered (private)
>   */
>  struct kmsg_dumper {
>  	struct list_head list;


Do we really do this thing?


$ git grep "(private)" include/linux/
include/linux/kmsg_dump.h: * @list:     Entry in the dumper list (private)
include/linux/uwb.h: * specific (private) DevAddr (UWB_RSV_TARGET_DEVADDR).

	-ss