From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: alext@fc.hp.com (Alex Tsariounov) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:51:36 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFC] Enhanced show_stack output to add backing store regs Message-Id: <20050314185136.GD3070@fc.hp.com> List-Id: References: <1110566404.498.79.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1110566404.498.79.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:00:08PM -0800, Luck, Tony wrote: > >Is this generally interesting? I'm wondering if it isn't currently > >done because of some issue with oops message size, or excessive > >printk's causing problems elsewhere? > > On a VGA console the "iip" is _sometimes_ still visible on the screen > after an oops (and if your users can only be trained to copy down one > number from an oops, this is the most useful one to have). Adding these > extra lines would guarantee that iip always scrolls off the top. Doesn't hitting Shift-PgUp bring the scrolled-off portions back into view on a VGA console, or does that key not always work? Regards, Alex