Re: Regression due to 7ff9554 "printk: convert byte-buffer tovariable-length record buffer"

From: Kay Sievers
Date: Thu May 10 2012 - 16:07:11 EST


On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 05/09/2012 12:31 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> For me, next-20120508 prints nothing when booted, and I think also
>> hangs. To solve this, I reverted:
>>
>> 7ff9554 printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-length record buffer
>>
>> In order to build, I also had to revert:
>>
>> c4e00da driver-core: extend dev_printk() to pass structured data
>>
>> Note: I'm running on an ARM system using a serial console, with
>> earlyprintk enabled.
>
> This issue still occurs in next-20120510.
>
> I've tracked it down to the assignment of msg->ts_nsec near the end of
> log_store(). If I comment this out, everything works. The problem is the
> assignment, not the call to local_clock():
>
> fails:
> Â Â Â Âmsg->ts_nsec = local_clock();
> fails:
> Â Â Â Âmsg->ts_nsec = 0;//local_clock();
> works:
> Â Â Â Â//msg->ts_nsec = local_clock();

Weird.

What happens if you change it to:
cpu_clock(logbuf_cpu);
?

If it works, the timestamps look ok?

Kay
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