[PATCH] powerpc/xmon: make dumping log buffer contents more reliable

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Sun Jun 6 22:08:37 AEST 2021


On Fri, 14 May 2021 11:24:20 -0500, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> Log buffer entries that are too long for dump_log_buf()'s small
> local buffer are:
> 
> * silently discarded when a single-line entry is too long;
>   kmsg_dump_get_line() returns true but sets &len to 0.
> * silently truncated to the last fitting new line when a multi-line
>   entry is too long, e.g. register dumps from __show_regs(); this
>   seems undetectable via the kmsg_dump API.
> 
> [...]

Applied to powerpc/next.

[1/1] powerpc/xmon: make dumping log buffer contents more reliable
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/2cec178e35baf57d307c0982fd2e53055bd1e9bb

cheers


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