linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] panic: Don't print redundant backtraces on oops

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Date:	Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:34:21 -0800
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
To:	holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] panic: Don't print redundant backtraces on oops

it?

> I think the two problems are not related. My problem was that only one
> CPU should execute panic. Andi's problem is that one (or more oops)
> messages are scrolled away by a subsequent panic.

Yes it's just for making panic less chatty.

> But I am not sure if Andi's patch solves all his problems. What e.g.
> about panic_on_oom? Don't we have the same problem here?

Yes, it only solves it for this specific -- but common -- case. Or at 
least it was a case
that annoyed me and prompted me to write the patch :)

I had a patch some time ago for a xpanic() where the caller could pass 
in additional
flags, including one to disable the backtrace. But that was a much 
larger patch,
this was a simpler alternative.

-Andi

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