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From: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: pmladek@suse.com, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] print kdump kernel loaded status in stack dump
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 12:47:19 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180119044719.GA3985@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180118135704.62d0f79f@gandalf.local.home>

On 01/18/18 at 01:57pm, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 10:02:17 -0800
> Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> writes:
> > >  		printk("%sHardware name: %s\n",
> > >  		       log_lvl, dump_stack_arch_desc_str);
> > > +	if (kexec_crash_loaded())
> > > +		printk("%skdump kernel loaded\n", log_lvl);  
> > 
> > Oops/warnings are getting longer and longer, often scrolling away
> > from the screen, and if the kernel crashes backscroll does not work
> > anymore, so precious information is lost.
> > 
> > Can you merge it with some other line?
> > 
> > Just a [KDUMP] or so somewhere should be good enough.
> 
> Or perhaps we should add it as a TAINT. Not all taints are bad.

Hmm, I also thought about this before but It sounds like not match the
"tainted" meaning with the assumption that it is bad :(

Maybe it would be better to do like Andi said, but print a better word
than "KDUMP", eg. "Kdumpable" sounds better.  If this is fine I can
repost the patch.

> 
> -- Steve

Thanks
Dave

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-19  4:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-17  4:50 [PATCH] print kdump kernel loaded status in stack dump Dave Young
2018-01-17  8:57 ` Petr Mladek
2018-01-17 12:32   ` Dave Young
2018-01-17 13:42     ` Petr Mladek
2018-01-17 15:48       ` Steven Rostedt
2018-01-18  1:57       ` Dave Young
2018-01-18 18:02 ` Andi Kleen
2018-01-18 18:57   ` Steven Rostedt
2018-01-19  4:47     ` Dave Young [this message]
2018-01-19 13:06       ` Petr Tesarik
2018-01-26  7:37       ` Dave Young
2018-01-26 12:17         ` Petr Mladek
2018-01-27  3:57           ` Dave Young
2018-01-19  5:45   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-01-19  8:16     ` Dave Young
2018-01-19  8:28       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-01-19  8:42         ` Dave Young
2018-01-19  9:46           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-01-19  8:32       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-01-19 16:16     ` Andi Kleen
2018-01-19 16:51       ` Petr Tesarik

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