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Kconfig: enlarge printk buffer size limit

RFC PATCH In review Artem Bityutskiy 2 participants 3 messages Mar 2, 2007 – Mar 7, 2007 Library code

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RFC PATCH 1/1 Kconfig: enlarge printk buffer size limit

From: Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
Subject: [RFC] [PATCH] Kconfig: enlarge printk buffer size limit

This patch makes the upper kernel ring buffer size limit larger. It is often very handy to have huge ring-buffer for debugging purposes, when the subsystem which is being debugged produces large amount of useful output.

lib/Kconfig.debug +1 -1
Index: ubi-2.6.git/lib/Kconfig.debug
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@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ config DEBUG_KERNEL
 
 config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
 	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" if DEBUG_KERNEL
-	range 12 21
+	range 12 26
 	default 17 if S390 || LOCKDEP
 	default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64
 	default 15 if SMP
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Quoted 13 lines · On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:27:48 +0200 Artem Bityutskiy wrote:

From: Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
Subject: [RFC] [PATCH] Kconfig: enlarge printk buffer size limit

This patch makes the upper kernel ring buffer size limit larger. It is often very handy to have huge ring-buffer for debugging purposes, when the subsystem which is being debugged produces large amount of useful output.

Index: ubi-2.6.git/lib/Kconfig.debug
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lib/Kconfig.debug config DEBUG_KERNEL · line 85

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lib/Kconfig.debug +1 -1
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ config DEBUG_KERNEL
 
 config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
 	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" if DEBUG_KERNEL
-	range 12 21
+	range 12 26
 	default 17 if S390 || LOCKDEP
 	default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64
 	default 15 if SMP

That's simple enough, but you could also just add
log_buf_len=huge_number
or

	log_buf_len=500M
or
	log_buf_len=1G

(for megabytes or gigabytes) to the kernel boot command line.

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~Randy
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Quoted 2 lines · Randy Dunlap

That's simple enough, but you could also just add
log_buf_len=huge_number

Yeah, thanks for the tip, although the Kconfig change would not hurt as well.

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Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)