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To: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/printk.c  lockless access
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 21:50:17 +0100
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Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com> writes:

> The 'fix' is to provide a routine that simply returns the pointers
> to the log buffer.  

Better&simpler fix would be to just unstatic __log_buf
You cannot call such functions generally when looking at memory
dumps of some form.

-Andi