From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keith Owens Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:06:22 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFC] Enhanced show_stack output to add backing store regs Message-Id: <6513.1110841582@kao2.melbourne.sgi.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 Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:51:36 -0700, alext@fc.hp.com (Alex Tsariounov) wrote: >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? Shift-PgUp requires working interrupts. Not always available when the kernel is having problems.