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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/printk.c  lockless access
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 01:54:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1105062162.24896.311.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41DDD6FA.2050403@osdl.org>

On Gwe, 2005-01-07 at 00:25, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > Actually Id love to do this on ppc64 too. Its always difficult to get a
> > customer to remember to save away an oops report.
> 
> We need /proc/kallsyms, /proc/modules, etc. also....
> can you capture all of that for a complete oops/panic analysis?
> (short of kdump, that is)

Ditto on x86 - several of us raised the ideal of ACPI actually defining
a "log area" in the E820 map types or some other ACPI resource that
would be a chunk of RAM used for logs that wasn't going to get bios
eaten on a soft reboot but could be reclaimed by the OS but we didn't
get it.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-07  2:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-06 19:58 [PATCH] kernel/printk.c lockless access Linas Vepstas
2005-01-06 20:50 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-07  0:12 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-07  0:26   ` Anton Blanchard
2005-01-07  0:25     ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-01-07  1:54       ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-01-09 10:44         ` Frank van Maarseveen
2005-01-09 22:31           ` David Wagner
2005-01-09 23:00           ` Alan Cox
2005-01-10 20:43             ` Matt Mackall
2005-01-08  2:37 ` Keith Owens

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