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From: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
To: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] print kdump kernel loaded status in stack dump
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 14:06:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180119140658.2137904e@ezekiel.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180119044719.GA3985@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com>

On Fri, 19 Jan 2018 12:47:19 +0800
Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> wrote:

> 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 :(

Not only that. Once set, taint flags are not supposed to go away, but
it is perfectly fine to unload a panic kernel.

Petr T

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-19 13:07 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
2018-01-19 13:06       ` Petr Tesarik [this message]
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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