Re: [PATCH] lguest32 kallsyms backtrace of guest.

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 12:54 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:

> 
> 	This is a cool idea, but there are two issues with this patch.  The
> first is that it's 500 lines of code: that's around +10% on lguest's
> total code size!  The second is that it conflicts with the medium-term
> plan to allow any user to run up lguests: this is why lg.ko never
> printk()s about problems with the guest.

Not much I can do about the size, but it's in the debug section so
hopefully it's not considered too bad :)

> 
> While it is useful for cases where a guest dies mysteriously before it
> brings up the console, three alternatives come to mind:
> 
> 1) Modify early_printk so Guests can use it.
> 2) Have a separate tool(-set?) for this kind of post-mortem.  Then you
> just have to implement guest suspend! 8)
> 3) Put this in a CONFIG_LGUEST_DEBUG.
> 
> Note that options 1 or 2 make you do more work, but are probably better
> in the long term.  I'm happy for #3 to sit as a patch in the tree for
> the duration, tho!

OK, I'll make a #3 patch to send, but the #1 looks best. Not to mention
that I still need to make it so that the console can read it.

-- Steve