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From: Daniel Walter <d.walter@0x90.at>
To: user-mode-linux-devel <user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>, thomas@m3y3r.de
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] Dump really early stack traces
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 10:28:24 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <779241076.3024.1412670504362.JavaMail.root@0x90.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1487140382.2997.1412670384789.JavaMail.root@0x90.at>

> <snip>

Hi Thomas,

Could you please fix your patch since there are multiple issues with it
1) I does not apply cleanly against the current linux tree 
   mostly due to kmsg_dump.c which is not in the proper format
   it should be b/arch/um/kernel/kmsg_dump.c like the rest of the patch

2) After fixing this it did not build
   Please make sure to build test your patch on a fresh checkout of the tree
   by applying your patch, make ARCH=um mrproper, make ARCH=um defconfig make ARCH=um

3) The patch itself does not comply to patch standards.
   please read Documentation/SubmittingPatches for more information
   you can use scripts/checkpatch.pl to check for common errors
   eg: Signed-off-by is missing, etc.


Now that we're done with the non-technical things, I don't like 

a) that you move the inline function (current_thread_info) out of the
   header file

b) introduce a branch into this function which is most likely never taken
   (you could use if (unlikely(!is_kernel_addr((void *)ti)) )

c) I'd personally would make is_kernel_addr either an inline function or a macro

d) please split up the 2 changes in to different patches
   1) return init_thread_info if not kernel_addr
   2) add kmsg_dumper to panic_exit()

e) I'm not sure if returning init_thread_info is the right approach, it might
   mask other errors like memory corruption bugs, etc.

I do like the kmsg_dumper thing, so would you mind sending this as a separate patch ?

Cheers,

Daniel

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