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From: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>,
	Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: numlist API Re: [RFC PATCH v4 1/9] printk-rb: add a new printk ringbuffer implementation
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:03:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k1axjsjp.fsf@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190828085845.5k7ewfshbfed7txh@pathway.suse.cz> (Petr Mladek's message of "Wed, 28 Aug 2019 10:58:45 +0200")

On 2019-08-28, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> wrote:
> I only think that, especially, numlist API is too generic in v4.
> It is not selfcontained. The consistency depends on external barriers.
>
> I believe that it might become fully self-contained and consistent
> if we reduce possibilities of the generic usage. In particular,
> the numlist should allow only linking of reusable structures
> stored in an array.

OK. I will make the numlist the master of the ID-to-node mapping. To
implement the getdesc() callback of the dataring, the printk_ringbuffer
can call a numlist mapping function. Also, numlist will need to provide
a function to bump the descriptor version (as your previous idea already
showed).

I plan to change the array to be numlist nodes. The ID would move into
the numlist node structure and a void-pointer private would be added so
that the numlist user can add private data (for printk_ringbuffer that
would just be a pointer to the dataring structure). When the
printk_ringbuffer gets a never-used numlist node, it can set the private
field.

This has the added benefit of making it easy to detect accidental
never-used descriptor usage when reading dataring garbage. This was
non-trivial and I'm still not sure I solved it correctly. (I've already
spent a week working on a definitive answer to your email[0] asking
about this.)

John Ogness

[0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190820151239.yzdqz56yeldlknln@pathway.suse.cz

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-28 14:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 134+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-07 22:26 [RFC PATCH v4 0/9] printk: new ringbuffer implementation John Ogness
2019-08-07 22:26 ` [RFC PATCH v4 1/9] printk-rb: add a new printk " John Ogness
2019-08-20  8:15   ` numlist_pop(): " Petr Mladek
2019-08-21  5:41     ` John Ogness
2019-09-04 12:19     ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-20  8:22   ` assign_desc() barriers: " Petr Mladek
2019-08-20 14:14     ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-21  5:52       ` John Ogness
2019-08-22 11:53         ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-25  2:06           ` John Ogness
2019-08-26  8:21             ` John Ogness
2019-08-20  8:55   ` comments style: " Petr Mladek
2019-08-20  9:27     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-08-21  5:46       ` John Ogness
2019-08-22 13:50         ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-22 17:38           ` Andrea Parri
2019-08-23 10:47             ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-23 14:27               ` Andrea Parri
2019-08-23  9:49           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-08-23  5:54         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-08-23 10:29           ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-21  5:42     ` John Ogness
2019-08-22 12:44       ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-20 13:50   ` dataring_push() barriers " Petr Mladek
2019-08-25  2:42     ` John Ogness
2019-08-27 14:36       ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-28 13:43         ` John Ogness
2019-08-20 15:12   ` datablock reuse races " Petr Mladek
2019-08-23  9:21   ` numlist_push() barriers " Petr Mladek
2019-08-26  8:34     ` Andrea Parri
2019-08-26  8:43       ` Andrea Parri
2019-08-26 14:10       ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-26 16:01         ` Andrea Parri
2019-08-26 22:36     ` John Ogness
2019-08-27  7:40       ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-27 14:28         ` John Ogness
2019-08-27 15:07           ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-28 10:24             ` John Ogness
2019-08-23 17:18   ` numlist API " Petr Mladek
2019-08-26 23:57     ` John Ogness
2019-08-27 13:03       ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-28  7:13         ` John Ogness
2019-08-28  8:58           ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-28 14:03             ` John Ogness [this message]
2019-08-29 11:28               ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-03  7:58         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-08-30 14:48   ` dataring " Petr Mladek
2019-08-07 22:26 ` [RFC PATCH v4 2/9] printk-rb: add test module John Ogness
2019-08-07 22:26 ` [RFC PATCH v4 3/9] printk-rb: fix missing includes/exports John Ogness
2019-08-07 22:26 ` [RFC PATCH v4 4/9] printk-rb: initialize new descriptors as invalid John Ogness
2019-08-20  9:23   ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-20 10:16     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-08-21  5:56     ` John Ogness
2019-08-07 22:26 ` [RFC PATCH v4 5/9] printk-rb: remove extra data buffer size allocation John Ogness
2019-08-07 22:26 ` [RFC PATCH v4 6/9] printk-rb: adjust test module ringbuffer sizes John Ogness
2019-08-19 21:29   ` [PATCH] printk-rb: fix test module macro usage John Ogness
2019-08-07 22:26 ` [RFC PATCH v4 7/9] printk-rb: increase size of seq and size variables John Ogness
2019-08-07 22:26 ` [RFC PATCH v4 8/9] printk-rb: new functionality to support printk John Ogness
2019-08-20  9:59   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-08-21  5:47     ` John Ogness
2019-08-07 22:26 ` [RFC PATCH v4 9/9] printk: use a new ringbuffer implementation John Ogness
2019-08-08 19:07   ` Linus Torvalds
2019-08-08 22:55     ` John Ogness
2019-08-08 23:33       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-08-08 23:45         ` Steven Rostedt
2019-08-09  0:21           ` Linus Torvalds
2019-08-09  0:48             ` Steven Rostedt
2019-08-09  1:15               ` Linus Torvalds
2019-08-09 11:15                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-08-09 16:00                   ` Linus Torvalds
2019-08-09 20:07                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-08-09 20:20                       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-08-09  6:14     ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-09  7:08       ` John Ogness
2019-08-09 15:57       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-08-10  5:53         ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-09-10  3:19           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-08-12  9:54       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-08-16  5:46   ` Dave Young
2019-08-16  5:46     ` Dave Young
2019-08-16  5:54     ` Dave Young
2019-08-16  5:54       ` Dave Young
2019-08-16  9:40     ` John Ogness
2019-08-16  9:40       ` John Ogness
2019-09-04 12:35 ` [RFC PATCH v4 0/9] printk: " Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-05 13:05   ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-05 14:31     ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-05 15:38       ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-09-05 16:11         ` Steven Rostedt
2019-09-05 21:10           ` John Ogness
2019-09-06  9:39           ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-09 14:11           ` printk meeting at LPC Thomas Gleixner
2019-09-13 13:26             ` John Ogness
2019-09-13 14:48               ` Daniel Vetter
2019-09-15 13:47                 ` John Ogness
2019-09-16  8:44                   ` Daniel Vetter
2019-09-16  4:30               ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-09-16 10:46                 ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-16 13:43                   ` Steven Rostedt
2019-09-16 14:28                     ` John Ogness
2019-09-17  8:11                       ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-17  7:52                     ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-17 13:02                       ` Steven Rostedt
2019-09-17 13:12                         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-09-17 13:37                           ` Steven Rostedt
2019-09-17 14:08                             ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-09-17  7:51                   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-18  1:25               ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-18  2:08                 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-09-18  2:36                   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-18  5:19                     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-18  7:42                       ` John Ogness
2019-09-18  8:10                         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-18  9:05                           ` John Ogness
2019-09-18  9:11                             ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-18 16:41                             ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-18 16:48                               ` Steven Rostedt
2019-09-24 14:24                                 ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-19  8:06                         ` Daniel Vetter
2019-09-18  7:33                     ` John Ogness
2019-09-18  8:08                       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-10-04 14:48               ` Tony Asleson
2019-10-07 12:01                 ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-06  9:06       ` [RFC PATCH v4 0/9] printk: new ringbuffer implementation Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-06 10:09         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-06 10:49           ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-06 13:44             ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-06 12:42         ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-06 14:01           ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-06 14:22             ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-06 19:53             ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-06 22:47             ` John Ogness
2019-09-08 22:18             ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-10  3:22             ` Sergey Senozhatsky

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