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>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/printk.h b/include/linux/printk.h
index aa3c66da105c..1bec2f7a2d42 100644
--- a/include/linux/printk.h
+++ b/include/linux/printk.h
@@ -300,6 +300,8 @@ extern void dump_stack(void) __cold;
         no_printk(KERN_DEBUG pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
 #endif
 
+extern const struct file_operations kmsg_fops;
+
 enum {
         DUMP_PREFIX_NONE,
         DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS,