On Thu 2018-04-19 10:42:50, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > We wake up klogd very late - only when current console_sem owner > is done pushing pending kernel messages to the serial/net consoles. > In some cases this results in lost syslog messages, because kernel > log buffer is a circular buffer and if we don't wakeup syslog long > enough there are chances that logbuf simply will wrap around. > > The patch moves the klog wake up call to vprintk_emit(), which is > the only legit way for a kernel message to appear in the logbuf, > right before we attempt to grab the console_sem (possibly spinning > on it waiting for the hand off) and call console drivers.
The last two lines need an update. What about? "right after the attempt to handle consoles. As a result, klog will get waken either after flushing the new message to consoles or immediately when consoles are still busy with older messages." Otherwise, it looks nice: Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmla...@suse.com> Best Regards, Petr