From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: crash in trace.c with large extra_data
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:44:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110711144404.GA17475@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFLBxZbBf=BwEA0q5xWPhikPrNki8j081dmAL44+LMBEVAhh3g@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jul 11, George Dunlap wrote:
> The general idea is that callers of trace_var() *shouldn't* be calling
> with extra_words > TRACE_EXTRA_MAX. It's an assert so that it breaks
> on debug builds, allowing programmers to fix the mistake (obviously
> mine in this case), but not on production builds.
>
> I suppose it could be changed into a warning of some kind instead.
George,
a simple printk() would do it I think.
In this unfortunate case the system does not even reboot, need to find
someone to power cycle the box..
Olaf
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-11 14:02 crash in trace.c with large extra_data Olaf Hering
2011-07-11 14:35 ` George Dunlap
2011-07-11 14:44 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
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