Re: [PATCH v6 0/8] Additional kmsg devices

2016-02-27 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 03:47:18PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote: > > Could you explain in more detail what did you mean by IPC problems? > > I guess that the idea was to make IPC more effective in general. > You definitely could not move all functionality that needs IPC > into the kernel. 1.

Re: [PATCH v6 0/8] Additional kmsg devices

2016-02-26 Thread Petr Mladek
On Fri 2016-02-26 14:22:42, Kazimierz Krosman wrote: > On 02/25/2016 10:47 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: > >I'm not sure this is the right layer to implement generic logging > >facility. > In general this patches add only one feature- possibility of adding > and deleting > new kmsg devices, so I think that

Re: [PATCH v6 0/8] Additional kmsg devices

2016-02-26 Thread Kazimierz Krosman
On 02/25/2016 10:47 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: I'm not sure this is the right layer to implement generic logging facility. In general this patches add only one feature- possibility of adding and deleting new kmsg devices, so I think that it can be treated as kmsg upgrade. 2. Using kmsg can cause low

Re: [PATCH v6 0/8] Additional kmsg devices

2016-02-25 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Kazimierz. On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:53:13PM +0100, Kazimierz Krosman wrote: > 1. kmsg device does not require maintenance by reader process side. > Multiple writers can write to a device and new records overwrite logs saved > earlier. > When system crashes logs can be restored with pstor

[PATCH v6 0/8] Additional kmsg devices

2016-02-24 Thread Kazimierz Krosman
Dear All, This is the sixth iteration of Marcin Niesluchowski's series of patches extending kmsg interface with ability to dynamically create (and destroy) kmsg-like devices which can be used by userspace for logging, Changed from v5: * ioctl that adds kmsg device with minor number higher than