Re: [PATCH] kernel/printk.c lockless access

From: Anton Blanchard
Date: Thu Jan 06 2005 - 19:42:57 EST



> We faced the same problem in the Digeo kernel. When the kernel oopses we
> want to grab the last kilobyte or so of the printk buffer and stash it into
> nvram. We did this via a function which copies the data rather than
> exporting all those variables, which I think is a nicer and more
> maintainable approach:

Actually Id love to do this on ppc64 too. Its always difficult to get a
customer to remember to save away an oops report.

Anton
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