Re: [Dle-develop] [RFC][PATCH -mmotm 0/4] Improvement of pstore/kmsg_dump in kexec/panic path

[Seiji A. <sei...@hd...>]

Hi,

>Why can't we log something in user
>space when user initiates a reboot, let it get logged in /var/log/messages
>and then umount the file root and go ahead with reboot. Why does kernel
>need to capture that info in NVRAM.

Thank you for coordinating discussion.
I will reply to your question.

Regards,

Seiji

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Vivek Goyal [mailto:vg...@re...]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 2:48 PM
>To: Seiji Aguchi
>Cc: ke...@li...; lin...@vg...; lin...@li...; Eric W. Biederman; KOSAKI
>Motohiro; Americo Wang; Matthew Garrett; ton...@in...; Andrew Morton; Jarod Wilson; hp...@zy...;
>dz...@re...; dle...@li...; Satoru Moriya
>Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH -mmotm 0/4] Improvement of pstore/kmsg_dump in kexec/panic path
>
>On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 02:23:26PM -0400, Seiji Aguchi wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> [Upstream status]
>>    Discussion about kmsg_dump() in kdump path:
>>     - Eric and Vivek are worried about reliability of existing kmsg_dump().
>>     - Especially, Vivek would like to remove a RCU  function call chain in kdump path
>> 　　　 which kernel modules can register their function calls freely.
>>
>>    Discussion about pstore in nmi_hander.
>>     - Don Zickus found an issue of pstore in nmi_handler due to its mutex_lock.
>
>You did not answer my questions in the last posting mail thread and gone
>ahead with the new posting. How are we supposed to discuss something. This
>has been a problem on this mail thread since the beginneing. There is
>little open discussion.
>
>So if you want to make any progress in this direction, what will help
>is open discussion.
>
>Locking is going to be a problem. So atleast we can remove kmsg_dump()
>infrastructure from reboot path. Why can't we log something in user
>space when user initiates a reboot, let it get logged in /var/log/messages
>and then umount the file root and go ahead with reboot. Why does kernel
>need to capture that info in NVRAM.
>
>If we can get rid of all the logging thing on reboot path, then at least
>it does not need to be lock protected with crash path.
>
>Thanks
>Vivek