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| author |   Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2015-07-07 12:35:33 +0100 |
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| committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2015-07-07 12:35:33 +0100 |
| commit | 06be5eefe1192eb8ce8d07497f67595b6bfe9741 (patch) | |
| tree | 80f1987d4970f8079681f8be0c135cafc8d6329a /Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg | |
| parent | ARM: fix lockdep unannotated irqs-off warning (diff) | |
| parent | ARM: avoid unwanted GCC memset()/memcpy() optimisations for IO variants (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-06be5eefe1192eb8ce8d07497f67595b6bfe9741.tar.xz linux-dev-06be5eefe1192eb8ce8d07497f67595b6bfe9741.zip | |
Merge branches 'fixes' and 'ioremap' into for-linus
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg b/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg index bb820be48179..fff817efa508 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg @@ -98,4 +98,13 @@ Description: The /dev/kmsg character device node provides userspace access logic is used internally when messages are printed to the console, /proc/kmsg or the syslog() syscall. + By default, kernel tries to avoid fragments by concatenating + when it can and fragments are rare; however, when extended + console support is enabled, the in-kernel concatenation is + disabled and /dev/kmsg output will contain more fragments. If + the log consumer performs concatenation, the end result + should be the same. In the future, the in-kernel concatenation + may be removed entirely and /dev/kmsg users are recommended to + implement fragment handling. + Users: dmesg(1), userspace kernel log consumers |