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| author | Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> | 2012-05-03 02:29:41 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-05-08 02:03:27 +0200 |
| commit | e11fea92e13fb91c50bacca799a6131c81929986 (patch) | |
| tree | 3b9204f4eccc6b488b843d6d00e65dc982c50160 /Documentation | |
| parent | printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-length record buffer (diff) | |
| download | linux-e11fea92e13fb91c50bacca799a6131c81929986.tar.xz linux-e11fea92e13fb91c50bacca799a6131c81929986.zip | |
kmsg: export printk records to the /dev/kmsg interface
Support for multiple concurrent readers of /dev/kmsg, with read(),
seek(), poll() support. Output of message sequence numbers, to allow
userspace log consumers to reliably reconnect and reconstruct their
state at any given time. After open("/dev/kmsg"), read() always
returns *all* buffered records. If only future messages should be
read, SEEK_END can be used. In case records get overwritten while
/dev/kmsg is held open, or records get faster overwritten than they
are read, the next read() will return -EPIPE and the current reading
position gets updated to the next available record. The passed
sequence numbers allow the log consumer to calculate the amount of
lost messages.
[root@mop ~]# cat /dev/kmsg
5,0,0;Linux version 3.4.0-rc1+ (kay@mop) (gcc version 4.7.0 20120315 ...
6,159,423091;ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (domain 0000 [bus 00-ff])
7,160,424069;pci_root PNP0A03:00: host bridge window [io 0x0000-0x0cf7] (ignored)
SUBSYSTEM=acpi
DEVICE=+acpi:PNP0A03:00
6,339,5140900;NET: Registered protocol family 10
30,340,5690716;udevd[80]: starting version 181
6,341,6081421;FDC 0 is a S82078B
6,345,6154686;microcode: CPU0 sig=0x623, pf=0x0, revision=0x0
7,346,6156968;sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
SUBSYSTEM=scsi
DEVICE=+scsi:1:0:0:0
6,347,6289375;microcode: CPU1 sig=0x623, pf=0x0, revision=0x0
Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Tested-by: William Douglas <william.douglas@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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