linux-kernel - [PATCH net-next v2 0/5] netconsole: Add support for msgid in sysdata

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Message-Id: <20250612-netconsole-msgid-v2-0-d4c1abc84bac@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 13:02:13 -0700
From: Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gustavold@...il.com>
To: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, 
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, 
 Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, 
 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, 
 Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gustavold@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v2 0/5] netconsole: Add support for msgid in
 sysdata

This patch series introduces a new feature to netconsole which allows
appending a message ID to the userdata dictionary.

If the msgid feature is enabled, the message ID is built from a per-target 32
bit counter that is incremented and appended to every message sent to the target.

Example::
  echo 1 > "/sys/kernel/config/netconsole/cmdline0/userdata/msgid_enabled"
  echo "This is message #1" > /dev/kmsg
  echo "This is message #2" > /dev/kmsg
  13,434,54928466,-;This is message #1
   msgid=1
  13,435,54934019,-;This is message #2
   msgid=2

This feature can be used by the target to detect if messages were dropped or
reordered before reaching the target. This allows system administrators to
assess the reliability of their netconsole pipeline and detect loss of messages
due to network contention or temporary unavailability.

Suggested-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gustavold@...il.com>

---
Changes in v2:
- Use wrapping_assign_add() to avoid warnings in UBSAN and friends.
- Improve documentation to clarify wrapping and distinguish msgid from sequnum.
- Rebase and fix conflict in prepare_extradata().
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250611-netconsole-msgid-v1-0-1784a51feb1e@gmail.com

---
Gustavo Luiz Duarte (5):
      netconsole: introduce 'msgid' as a new sysdata field
      netconsole: implement configfs for msgid_enabled
      netconsole: append msgid to sysdata
      selftests: netconsole: Add tests for 'msgid' feature in sysdata
      docs: netconsole: document msgid feature

 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst            | 32 +++++++++++
 drivers/net/netconsole.c                           | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 .../selftests/drivers/net/netcons_sysdata.sh       | 30 ++++++++++
 3 files changed, 127 insertions(+)
---
base-commit: 535de528015b56e34a40a8e1eb1629fadf809a84
change-id: 20250609-netconsole-msgid-b93c6f8e9c60

Best regards,
-- 
Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gustavold@...il.com>