Re: [PATCH 3/3] relay: Add buffer-only channels; useful for early logging.

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Sun Jun 22 2008 - 15:24:46 EST


On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
<eduard.munteanu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Allows one to create and use a channel with no associated files. Files
> can be initialized later. This is useful in scenarios such as logging
> in early code, before VFS is up. Therefore, such channels can be
> created and used as soon as kmem_cache_init() completed.
>
> This is needed by kmemtrace to do tracing in early kernel code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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