[PATCH] relayfs: remove warning printk() in relay_switch_subbuf()

There's currently a diagnostic printk in relay_switch_subbuf() meant as
a warning if you accidentally try to log an event larger than the
sub-buffer size.

The problem is if this happens while logging from somewhere it's not
safe to be doing printks, such as in the scheduler, you can end up with
a deadlock.  This patch removes the warning from relay_switch_subbuf()
and instead prints some diagnostic info when the channel is closed.

Thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers for pointing out the problem and
suggesting a fix.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/relayfs_fs.h b/include/linux/relayfs_fs.h
index cfafc3e76bc2..fb7e80737325 100644
--- a/include/linux/relayfs_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/relayfs_fs.h
@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@
 #include <linux/kref.h>
 
 /*
- * Tracks changes to rchan_buf struct
+ * Tracks changes to rchan/rchan_buf structs
  */
-#define RELAYFS_CHANNEL_VERSION		5
+#define RELAYFS_CHANNEL_VERSION		6
 
 /*
  * Per-cpu relay channel buffer
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ struct rchan
 	struct rchan_callbacks *cb;	/* client callbacks */
 	struct kref kref;		/* channel refcount */
 	void *private_data;		/* for user-defined data */
+	size_t last_toobig;		/* tried to log event > subbuf size */
 	struct rchan_buf *buf[NR_CPUS]; /* per-cpu channel buffers */
 };