linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dump

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Date:	Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:39:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dump_stack on panic


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On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:00:56 -0400 (EDT)
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> >
> > I've had too many issues in development where I hit a panic and it
> > gives me nothing to tell me why.
> >
> > At the very least, we should have a dump_stack in areas that are
> > usually caused by kernel bugs. For example, killing an interrupt
> > handler.
> >
>
> here's the deal.... the killing of an interrupt handler because of an
> oops THEN causes a panic. If you dump stack AGAIN, you have 2 stack
> traces, with the first one being the real good one, and the second one
> being.. well more crappy... so you proposal just dropped the good
> stacktrace off the screen in favor of a worse one...

Could be just a development glitch on my part, but there were times (IIRC)
I would not get a dump from a fault inside the interrupt handler, but I
would get the report of the killing of the interrupt handler.

Seems that I need to start recording the issues I've had with a kernel bug
not dumping a stack and doing a panic (which did nothing). And then I can
get back to you ;-)

-- Steve

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