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From: Jarkko Lavinen <jarkko.lavinen@nokia.com>
To: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com>
Cc: linux-mtd <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] oops and panic message logging to MTD
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 12:47:02 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070703094702.GA11992@angel.research.nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1182247254.5760.17.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:00:54AM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> Its not a case of formatting the whole partition. The whole point of
> this code is the following use case:
> 
> 1. Device crashes
> 2. Device reboots
> 3. mtdoops partition has a log of why it crashed

The oops logger uses oops_in_progress variable to detect the begin and the 
end of an oops.  The end is detected when the first non-oops line comes and
oops_in_progress is false.

This works if the kernel is still running after the oops and gemerates some 
non-oops messages.  But if there is no non-oops line following an oops, no
flushing will occur and there won't be a log on flash.

Jarkko Lavinen

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From: Jarkko Lavinen <jarkko.lavinen@nokia.com>
To: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com>
Cc: dedekind@infradead.org, linux-mtd <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] oops and panic message logging to MTD
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 12:47:02 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070703094702.GA11992@angel.research.nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1182247254.5760.17.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:00:54AM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> Its not a case of formatting the whole partition. The whole point of
> this code is the following use case:
> 
> 1. Device crashes
> 2. Device reboots
> 3. mtdoops partition has a log of why it crashed

The oops logger uses oops_in_progress variable to detect the begin and the 
end of an oops.  The end is detected when the first non-oops line comes and
oops_in_progress is false.

This works if the kernel is still running after the oops and gemerates some 
non-oops messages.  But if there is no non-oops line following an oops, no
flushing will occur and there won't be a log on flash.

Jarkko Lavinen

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-03  9:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-18 16:31 [PATCH/RFC] oops and panic message logging to MTD Richard Purdie
2007-06-19  7:55 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-06-19 10:00   ` Richard Purdie
2007-06-19 10:29     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-06-19 10:52       ` Richard Purdie
2007-06-19 11:05         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-07-03  9:47     ` Jarkko Lavinen [this message]
2007-07-03  9:47       ` Jarkko Lavinen
2007-07-04  8:54       ` Richard Purdie
2007-07-04  8:54         ` Richard Purdie
2007-06-19  8:07 ` Artem Bityutskiy
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-29 12:31 Richard Purdie
2007-05-29 12:35 ` Richard Purdie

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