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From: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
To: Sreenath Vijayan <sreenath.vijayan@sony.com>,
	corbet@lwn.net, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, jirislaby@kernel.org,
	rdunlap@infradead.org, pmladek@suse.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org, senozhatsky@chromium.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, taichi.shimoyashiki@sony.com,
	daniel.palmer@sony.com, anandakumar.balasubramaniam@sony.com,
	sreenath.vijayan@sony.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] tty/sysrq: Dump printk ring buffer messages via sysrq
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 11:11:27 +0106	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87il3rardk.fsf@jogness.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57daf43c5270f7532b269b9f0e90d126ca012354.1705331453.git.sreenath.vijayan@sony.com>

On 2024-01-17, Sreenath Vijayan <sreenath.vijayan@sony.com> wrote:
> When terminal is unresponsive, one cannot use dmesg to view printk
> ring buffer messages. Also, syslog services may be disabled,
> to check the messages after a reboot, especially on embedded systems.
> In this scenario, dump the printk ring buffer messages via sysrq
> by pressing sysrq+D.

Note that using sysrq+g with kgdb or kdb it is already possible to dump
the printk ringbuffer messages. However using this new sysrq+D is much
more comfortable, less intrusive, and generally safer.

I have no problems with this change. But I guess the tty maintainers
will need to speak up about extending the sysrq list.

John

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-01-18 10:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-17 10:12 [PATCH v3 0/2] Add support to dump printk buffer to console via sysrq Sreenath Vijayan
2024-01-17 10:12 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] printk: Add function to dump printk buffer directly to consoles Sreenath Vijayan
2024-01-18  9:49   ` John Ogness
2024-01-18 10:14     ` John Ogness
2024-01-20  8:41     ` Sreenath Vijayan
2024-01-17 11:13 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] tty/sysrq: Dump printk ring buffer messages via sysrq Sreenath Vijayan
2024-01-17 10:12   ` Sreenath Vijayan
2024-01-18 10:05   ` John Ogness [this message]
2024-01-18 22:56   ` David Laight
2024-01-19  5:47     ` gregkh

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