linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] relay: Add buffer-only channels; useful for early logging.

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Date:	Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:24:32 +0300
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu" <eduard.munteanu@...ux360.ro>
Cc:	tzanussi@...il.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, compudj@...stal.dyndns.org,
	vegard.nossum@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] relay: Add buffer-only channels; useful for early logging.

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
<eduard.munteanu@...ux360.ro> wrote:
> Allows one to create and use a channel with no associated files. Files
> can be initialized later. This is useful in scenarios such as logging
> in early code, before VFS is up. Therefore, such channels can be
> created and used as soon as kmem_cache_init() completed.
>
> This is needed by kmemtrace to do tracing in early kernel code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@...ux360.ro>

Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
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