linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] printk/nmi: generic solution for safe printk in NMI

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Date:   Fri, 28 Apr 2017 10:16:59 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>,
        Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
        Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
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        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] printk/nmi: generic solution for safe printk in
 NMI

On Fri, 28 Apr 2017 14:57:25 +0200
Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com> wrote:


> Of course, if the problem is reproducible, the easiest solution
> is to use bigger main log buffer, for example boot with
> log_buf_len=32M.

Of course that may not be enough. Especially when I have a machine with
240 CPUs. But it also has a ton of RAM, I could easily do
log_buf_len=32G

-- Steve