From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: linas@austin.ibm.com
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linas@linas.org
Subject: Re: KDB in the mainstream 2.4.x kernels?
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 02:57:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030719005718.GA4596@averell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030718193107.B45512@forte.austin.ibm.com>
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 07:31:08PM -0500, linas@austin.ibm.com wrote:
> > One argument i have against it: KDB is incredibly ugly code.
> > Before it could be even considered for merging it would need quite a lot
> > of cleanup.
>
> What in particular? I just looked at kdb/kdbmain.c and kdb/kdb_bt.c
> and it looks fine to me; fairly minimal even. I don't know about
> arch-specific code. Is there a particular file you're complaining about?
Check the kdbsupport.c code too.
All the code together for the i386 backtracer is approaching 1000 LOC and
it's quite ugly.
> Dedicating a partition that is unformated, and whose sole purpose
> in life is to record a dump -- that is a viable option, at least on
> servers, where high uptime is more important, and storage is cheap.
Typically you don't need a dedicated partition, you can dump on swap.
netdump does also dump over the network. This may be the safer choice
when you don't trust your block subsystem after crashes.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-19 0:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <aJIn.3mj.15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-07-18 20:43 ` KDB in the mainstream 2.4.x kernels? Andi Kleen
2003-07-19 0:31 ` linas
2003-07-19 0:57 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2003-07-20 12:55 ` Keith Owens
2003-07-20 13:31 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-20 22:27 ` Keith Owens
2003-07-21 15:06 ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-29 19:44 ` Robin Holt
2003-08-13 4:40 ` Martin Pool
2003-08-13 11:04 ` Andi Kleen
2003-08-25 12:16 ` Greg Stark
2003-08-25 16:23 ` Andi Kleen
2003-08-26 13:39 ` Greg Stark
2003-08-27 13:49 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-30 10:35 ` Pavel Machek
2003-09-02 20:40 Tolentino, Matthew E
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2003-08-28 17:08 Tolentino, Matthew E
2003-08-28 20:24 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-18 20:06 linas
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