Re: [patch 2/2] track and print last unloaded module in the oops trace

[Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>]

On Monday 07 January 2008 10:19:46 Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Subject: track and print last unloaded module in the oops trace
> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
> CC: rusty@rustcorp.com.au
> CC: ak@suse.de
> CC: mingo@elte.hu
>
> Based on a suggestion from Andi:
> In various cases, the unload of a module may leave some bad state around
> that causes a kernel crash AFTER a module is unloaded; and it's then hard
> to find which module caused that.
>
> This patch tracks the last unloaded module, and prints this as part of the
> module list in the oops trace.
>
> Right now, only the last 1 module is tracked; I expect that this is enough
> for the vast majority of cases where this information matters; if it turns
> out that tracking more is important, we can always extend it to that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>

Thanks, applied.

Rusty.