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Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:24:32 +0300
From: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: "Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu" <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] relay: Add buffer-only channels; useful for early logging.
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On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
<eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> wrote:
> Allows one to create and use a channel with no associated files. Files
> can be initialized later. This is useful in scenarios such as logging
> in early code, before VFS is up. Therefore, such channels can be
> created and used as soon as kmem_cache_init() completed.
>
> This is needed by kmemtrace to do tracing in early kernel code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>

Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>