On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 21:36 +0800, Steven Rostedt wrote:On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Robert Richter wrote:It already is ;-)It seems that ring_buffer is not NMI-safe, while mcelog buffer will beYou can use it in nmi context with separate read and write
used in NMI context and interrupt context. When will ring_buffer to be
NMI-safe?
buffers. See this patch description:
6dad828b76c7224a22ddc9ce7aa495d994f03b31
Not sure if somebody will make the ring_buffer non-locking.
I've put in for a patent application on the algorithm so I must wait till it is processed before I can release the code.
When will it be merged by mainline kernel? Do you have a plan?