linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] printk: Fixup the nmi printk mess

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Message-ID: <1433953156.32331.4.camel@perches.com>
Date:	Wed, 10 Jun 2015 09:19:16 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jkosina@...e.cz,
	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, pmladek@...e.cz,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] printk: Fixup the nmi printk mess

On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 12:02 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> BTW, the printk.c file is getting rather big.

No joke that.

> Can we make a
> kernel/printk/nmi.c file that does this work. We can add a local
> printk_common.h that can share the global data structures, and this
> would move most of the #ifdef out of the C files.

Yes please.

There are many things in printk that could be moved
into separate files.

The last time I tried this was before Kay's structured
printk logging stuff:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/24/748



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