From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz>
Cc: Joshua Wise <jwise@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, thockin@google.com,
mikew@google.com, masouds@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Info dump on Oops or panic()
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:01:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070628190146.64af724a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706290237390.31463@twin.jikos.cz>
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:39:33 +0200 (CEST) Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Joshua Wise wrote:
>
> > This patch adds a call chain to be invoked when the system oopses or
> > panics.
>
> That seems really fragile, processing a callchain when the system goes to
> panic is not guaranteed to work. Wouldn't simple function call have higher
> chances of survival?
That was my complaint, but then we remembered die_chain, which is already
doing that.
Joshua will take a look at using die_chain instead of adding another one.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-29 2:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-28 22:05 [PATCH] Info dump on Oops or panic() Joshua Wise
2007-06-28 22:18 ` Kyle McMartin
2007-06-28 23:12 ` [PATCH] [revised -- version 2] " Joshua Wise
2007-06-28 23:48 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-29 2:15 ` Joshua Wise
2007-06-28 23:54 ` [PATCH] " Mike Frysinger
2007-06-29 0:39 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-06-29 2:01 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-06-29 1:15 ` Andi Kleen
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