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From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
To: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Koskinen Aaro \(Nokia-D/Helsinki\)" <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>,
	linux-mtd <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC v5 4/5]: core: Add dump device to call on oopses and panics
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:54:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091130095451.GA15335@logfs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1259574055.7518.80.camel@localhost>

On Mon, 30 November 2009 11:40:55 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> 
> The other alternative I was thinking about was to introduce a boolean
> flag, and set it to one as soon as 'lon_end' becomes larger than
> 'log_buf_len'.

I've thought about that as well.  The drawback is that we would have to
check in the regular printk path - by the time the panic notifier is
running it is too late.  So it adds cost to the regular case.

Jörn

-- 
There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers.
While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain.
-- Baron Rothschild

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-30  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-11  6:10 [PATCH] panic.c: export panic_on_oops Artem Bityutskiy
2009-10-12 11:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 11:23   ` Simon Kagstrom
2009-10-12 11:25   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-10-12 11:37     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 12:01       ` Simon Kagstrom
2009-10-12 12:09         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 12:15           ` David Woodhouse
2009-10-12 12:20             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 12:33               ` David Woodhouse
2009-10-12 12:36                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 12:48                   ` David Woodhouse
2009-10-12 13:06               ` Simon Kagstrom
2009-10-12 13:15                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 13:39                   ` Simon Kagstrom
2009-10-12 14:30                     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 15:01                       ` Simon Kagstrom
2009-10-12 15:23                         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 15:36                     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-12 15:44                       ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-12 17:29                         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-10-12 17:43                           ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-12 17:46                             ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-12 18:09                       ` Andrew Morton
2009-10-12 18:23                         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 18:36                           ` Andrew Morton
2009-10-12 18:45                           ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-12 19:14                             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 19:18                             ` Dirk Hohndel
2009-10-13  7:58                             ` Simon Kagstrom
2009-10-13  8:57                               ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-10-13 13:17                             ` [PATCH/RFC v5 0/5]: mtdoops: fixes and improvements Simon Kagstrom
2009-10-13 13:21                               ` [PATCH/RFC v5 1/5]: mtdoops: avoid erasing already empty areas Simon Kagstrom
2009-10-13 13:22                               ` [PATCH/RFC v5 2/5]: mtdoops: Keep track of used/unused mtdoops pages in an array Simon Kagstrom
2009-10-13 13:22                               ` [PATCH/RFC v5 3/5]: mtdoops: Make page (record) size configurable Simon Kagstrom
2009-10-13 13:22                               ` [PATCH/RFC v5 4/5]: core: Add dump device to call on oopses and panics Simon Kagstrom
2009-10-13 15:37                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-26  9:36                                 ` Jörn Engel
2009-11-30  7:27                                   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-11-30  7:46                                     ` Jörn Engel
2009-11-30  8:51                                       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-11-30  9:35                                         ` Jörn Engel
2009-11-30  9:40                                           ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-11-30  9:53                                             ` Simon Kagstrom
     [not found]                                               ` <1259580207.19465.379.camel@macbook.infradead.org>
     [not found]                                                 ` <20091130123752.39727115@marrow.netinsight.se>
     [not found]                                                   ` <1259582202.19465.388.camel@macbook.infradead.org>
2009-11-30 12:03                                                     ` Simon Kagstrom
2009-11-30  9:54                                             ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2009-11-30 10:23                                         ` David Woodhouse
2009-11-30 10:27                                           ` David Woodhouse
2009-11-30  9:09                                   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-11-30  9:28                                     ` Simon Kagstrom
2009-10-13 13:22                               ` [PATCH/RFC v5 5/5]: mtdoops: refactor as a dump_device Simon Kagstrom
2009-10-14 13:34                             ` [PATCH v6 0/5]: mtdoops: fixes and improvements Simon Kagstrom
2009-10-14 13:40                               ` [PATCH v6 1/5]: mtdoops: avoid erasing already empty areas Simon Kagstrom
2009-10-14 13:41                               ` [PATCH v6 2/5]: mtdoops: Keep track of used/unused mtdoops pages in an array Simon Kagstrom
2009-10-14 13:41                               ` [PATCH v6 3/5]: mtdoops: Make page (record) size configurable Simon Kagstrom
2009-10-14 13:41                               ` [PATCH v6 4/5]: core: Add kernel message dumper to call on oopses and panics Simon Kagstrom
2009-10-14 16:49                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-14 13:41                               ` [PATCH v6 5/5]: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper Simon Kagstrom
2009-10-14 15:12                                 ` Simon Kagstrom
2009-10-15  5:11                                   ` vimal singh
2009-10-12 12:27           ` [PATCH] panic.c: export panic_on_oops Simon Kagstrom
2009-10-12 12:32             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 13:08               ` Alan Cox
2009-10-12 13:25                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 13:32                   ` David Woodhouse
2009-10-12 14:26                     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 14:36                       ` David Woodhouse
2009-10-12 15:14                         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 18:32                           ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2009-10-12 19:18                             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 14:12       ` Arjan van de Ven

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