linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ftrace: dump out ftrace buffers to console on panic

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Message-Id: <20080730175640.f04f81b5.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:56:40 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ftrace: dump out ftrace buffers to console on panic

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:39:47 -0400 (EDT) Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

> >
> >> +	__raw_spin_lock(&ftrace_dump_lock);
> >> +	dump_running = 0;
> >> +	__raw_spin_unlock(&ftrace_dump_lock);
> >> +
> >> + out:
> >> +	local_irq_restore(flags);
> >> +}
> >> +#endif /* CONFIG_FTRACE_DUMP_ON_OOPS */
> >
> > Do we really need a new config option for this?  Would it hurt too much
> > to make it unconditionally available?
> 
> I don't mind making it unconditionally available. I only added the config 
> option because I thought people would like to turn it off.
> 
> I'll resubmit with the above concerns fixed and without the config option.

Well..  my question about the config option was no more than a question
- I don't know the answer.

Although thinking about it, I guess that anyone who is really squeezy
on space just won't be enabling ftrace at all.  Is there any reason
other than size for disabling this new feature?


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