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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: jmorris@namei.org, sashal@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pmladek@suse.com,
	sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	anton@enomsg.org, ccross@android.com, tony.luck@intel.com,
	robh+dt@kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] allow ramoops to collect all kmesg_dump events
Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 11:14:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202005041112.F3C8117F67@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200502143555.543636-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>

On Sat, May 02, 2020 at 10:35:52AM -0400, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> Currently, ramoops is capable to collect dmesg buffer only during
> panic and oops events. However, it is desirable for shutdown performance
> analysis reasons to optionally allow collecting dmesg buffers during other
> events as well: reboot, kexec, emergency reboot etc.
> 
> How to quickly test:
> 
> virtme-run --mods=auto --kdir --mods=auto --kdir . \
> 	-a memmap=1G$8G -a ramoops.mem_address=0x200000000 \
> 	-a ramoops.mem_size=0x100000 -a ramoops.record_size=32768 \
> 	-a ramoops.dump_all=1 -a quiet --qemu-opts -m 8G
> ..
> # reboot -f
> 
> After VM is back:
> 
> # mount -t pstore pstore /mnt
> # head /mnt/dmesg-ramoops-0 
> Restart#1 Part1

Is there a reason that using ramoops.console_size isn't sufficient for
this?

I'm not strictly opposed to making these changes, but traditionally the
granularity of dmesg output has been pretty easily "all or crashes"
instead of a range within.

-- 
Kees Cook

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-05-04 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-02 14:35 [PATCH v1 0/3] allow ramoops to collect all kmesg_dump events Pavel Tatashin
2020-05-02 14:35 ` [PATCH v1 1/3] printk: honor the max_reason field in kmsg_dumper Pavel Tatashin
2020-05-04 17:15   ` Steven Rostedt
2020-05-04 17:56     ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-05-04 18:12     ` Kees Cook
2020-05-04 18:40       ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-05-05  1:02   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-05-05  2:52     ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-05-05  3:12       ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-05-05  4:21         ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-05-05 10:50           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-05-02 14:35 ` [PATCH v1 2/3] pstore/ram: allow to dump kmesg during regular reboot Pavel Tatashin
2020-05-04 19:29   ` Kees Cook
2020-05-04 20:30     ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-05-04 20:54       ` Kees Cook
2020-05-02 14:35 ` [PATCH v1 3/3] ramoops: add dump_all optional field to ramoops DT node Pavel Tatashin
2020-05-04 19:29   ` Kees Cook
2020-05-04 20:00     ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-05-05 15:14       ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-05-04 18:14 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2020-05-04 18:47   ` [PATCH v1 0/3] allow ramoops to collect all kmesg_dump events Pavel Tatashin
2020-05-04 19:12     ` Kees Cook
2020-05-04 19:17       ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-05-04 19:30         ` Kees Cook
2020-05-04 20:00           ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-05-05 12:36         ` Sergey Senozhatsky

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