Re: [PATCH] kernel/printk.c lockless access

Alan Cox
2005-01-07T02:59:06Z

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.