linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] panic: Add sysctl/cmdline to dump all CPUs backtraces on oops event

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Date:   Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:26:47 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@...onical.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        mcgrof@...nel.org, keescook@...omium.org, yzaikin@...gle.com,
        tglx@...utronix.de, kernel@...ccoli.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] panic: Add sysctl/cmdline to dump all CPUs backtraces
 on oops event

On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 13:59:15 -0700 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> wrote:

> > +oops_all_cpu_backtrace:
> > +================
> > +
> > +Determines if kernel should NMI all CPUs to dump their backtraces when
> 
> I would much prefer that to be written without using NMI as a verb.

"Non maskably interrupt" ;)

I think it's OK.  Concise and the meaning is clear.


Why do we need the kernel boot parameter?  Isn't
/proc/sys/kernel/oops_all_cpu_backtrace sufficient?