Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:24:32 +0300 | From | "Pekka Enberg" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] relay: Add buffer-only channels; useful for early logging. |
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On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> wrote: > Allows one to create and use a channel with no associated files. Files > can be initialized later. This is useful in scenarios such as logging > in early code, before VFS is up. Therefore, such channels can be > created and used as soon as kmem_cache_init() completed. > > This is needed by kmemtrace to do tracing in early kernel code. > > Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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