From: James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>
To: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, <davem@redhat.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <netdev@oss.sgi.com>,
<jgarzik@pobox.com>, <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
<rddunlap@osdl.org>, <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/2] kernel error reporting (revised)
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 09:52:33 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Mutt.LNX.4.44.0307200951210.21994-100000@excalibur.intercode.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F1882CF.538FE76@us.ibm.com>
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Jim Keniston wrote:
> > Yes, this makes sense. At the kerror.c level, just return -EDEADLK if in_irq().
> > Delay packet delivery (via a tasklet, as before) at the evlog.c level instead.
> > That way, we know at the evlog.c level (in the tasklet) whether the event packet
> > was delivered to anybody, and can paraphrase it to printk if it wasn't.
> >
> > Is this the sort of thing you had in mind?
Not exactly -- I don't think the logging framework should do any irq
detection. The caller should either know if its in an interrupt, or do
the detection itself.
- James
--
James Morris
<jmorris@intercode.com.au>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-19 23:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-08 17:31 [PATCH - RFC] [1/2] 2.6 must-fix list - kernel error reporting Jim Keniston
2003-07-08 17:59 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-08 19:22 ` Jim Keniston
2003-07-08 19:45 ` Jim Keniston
2003-07-10 4:42 ` James Morris
2003-07-10 19:08 ` Jim Keniston
2003-07-11 15:37 ` James Morris
2003-07-12 5:09 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-12 5:41 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-13 1:17 ` James Morris
2003-07-13 5:34 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-15 17:42 ` [PATCH] [1/2] kernel error reporting (revised) Jim Keniston
2003-07-15 17:45 ` [PATCH] [2/2] " Jim Keniston
2003-07-15 19:51 ` [PATCH] [1/2] " Andrew Morton
2003-07-15 23:10 ` kuznet
2003-07-17 19:13 ` Jim Keniston
2003-07-18 1:53 ` James Morris
2003-07-18 17:06 ` Jim Keniston
2003-07-18 23:29 ` Jim Keniston
2003-07-19 23:52 ` James Morris [this message]
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