linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND] scsi: Output error messages using structured printk in single line

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Date:	Wed, 21 May 2014 11:22:02 +0900
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	Yoshihiro YUNOMAE <yoshihiro.yunomae.ez@...achi.com>
Cc:	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@...achi.com>,
	yrl.pp-manager.tt@...achi.com,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] scsi: Output error messages using structured
 printk in single line

On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 13:17 +0900, Yoshihiro YUNOMAE wrote:
> +/* Maximum size of a local buffer for structured printk */
> +#define SCSI_LOG_LINE_MAX 512
> +
> +/* Local buffer for structured printk */
> +struct scsi_log_line {
> +	int offset;
> +	char buf[SCSI_LOG_LINE_MAX];
> +};

This piece isn't going to fly; it's an on stack allocation of 0.5kb;
that's too much for small stack kernels.  Just changing this to a kalloc
is going be problematic too because we're in the io paths and the
allocation may fail.  So I appreciate the problem, but I don't think the
solution works.  Could we just tag the messages and use grep to put them
back together?

James


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