kmsg: export printk records to the /dev/kmsg interface
Support for multiple concurrent readers of /dev/kmsg, with read(), seek(), poll() support. Output of message sequence numbers, to allow userspace log consumers to reliably reconnect and reconstruct their state at any given time. After open("/dev/kmsg"), read() always returns *all* buffered records. If only future messages should be read, SEEK_END can be used. In case records get overwritten while /dev/kmsg is held open, or records get faster overwritten than they are read, the next read() will return -EPIPE and the current reading position gets updated to the next available record. The passed sequence numbers allow the log consumer to calculate the amount of lost messages. [root@mop ~]# cat /dev/kmsg 5,0,0;Linux version 3.4.0-rc1+ (kay@mop) (gcc version 4.7.0 20120315 ... 6,159,423091;ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (domain 0000 [bus 00-ff]) 7,160,424069;pci_root PNP0A03:00: host bridge window [io 0x0000-0x0cf7] (ignored) SUBSYSTEM=acpi DEVICE=+acpi:PNP0A03:00 6,339,5140900;NET: Registered protocol family 10 30,340,5690716;udevd[80]: starting version 181 6,341,6081421;FDC 0 is a S82078B 6,345,6154686;microcode: CPU0 sig=0x623, pf=0x0, revision=0x0 7,346,6156968;sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 SUBSYSTEM=scsi DEVICE=+scsi:1:0:0:0 6,347,6289375;microcode: CPU1 sig=0x623, pf=0x0, revision=0x0 Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Tested-by:William Douglas <william.douglas@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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