linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v1 10/25] printk: redirect emit/store to new ringbuffer

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Date:   Mon, 25 Feb 2019 13:11:07 +0100
From:   Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
To:     John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Daniel Wang <wonderfly@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Alan Cox <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        Peter Feiner <pfeiner@...gle.com>,
        linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 10/25] printk: redirect emit/store to new
 ringbuffer

On Wed 2019-02-20 22:25:00, John Ogness wrote:
> On 2019-02-20, Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com> wrote:
> >> vprintk_emit and vprintk_store are the main functions that all printk
> >> variants eventually go through. Change these to store the message in
> >> the new printk ring buffer that the printk kthread is reading.
> >
> > Please, are there any candidates or plans to reuse the new ring
> > buffer implementation?
> 
> As you pointed out below, this patch already uses the ring buffer
> implementation for a totally different purpose: NMI safe dynamic memory
> allocation.

I have found an alternative solution. We could calculate the length
of the formatted string without any buffer:

	va_list args_copy;

	va_copy(args_copy, args);
	len = vscprintf(NULL, fmt, args_copy);
	va_end(args_copy);

This vsprintf() mode was implemented for exactly this purpose.

Best Regards,
Petr