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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/printk.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/printk.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c index 75077ad0b53..9213b8b5bb4 100644 --- a/kernel/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk.c @@ -413,6 +413,22 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(syslog, int, type, char __user *, buf, int, len) return do_syslog(type, buf, len, SYSLOG_FROM_CALL); } +#ifdef CONFIG_KGDB_KDB +/* kdb dmesg command needs access to the syslog buffer. do_syslog() + * uses locks so it cannot be used during debugging. Just tell kdb + * where the start and end of the physical and logical logs are. This + * is equivalent to do_syslog(3). + */ +void kdb_syslog_data(char *syslog_data[4]) +{ + syslog_data[0] = log_buf; + syslog_data[1] = log_buf + log_buf_len; + syslog_data[2] = log_buf + log_end - + (logged_chars < log_buf_len ? logged_chars : log_buf_len); + syslog_data[3] = log_buf + log_end; +} +#endif /* CONFIG_KGDB_KDB */ + /* * Call the console drivers on a range of log_buf */ |