On Tue, 2022-02-08 at 11:44 -0800, Abhinav Kumar wrote: > There are cases where depending on the size of the devcoredump and the speed > at which the usermode reads the dump, it can take longer than the current 5 > mins > timeout. > > This can lead to incomplete dumps as the device is deleted once the timeout > expires. > > One example is below where it took 6 mins for the devcoredump to be > completely read. > > 04:22:24.668 23916 23994 I HWDeviceDRM::DumpDebugData: Opening > /sys/class/devcoredump/devcd6/data > 04:28:35.377 23916 23994 W HWDeviceDRM::DumpDebugData: Freeing devcoredump > node > > Increase the timeout to 10 mins to accommodate system delays and large > coredump > sizes. >
No real objection, I guess, but can the data actually disappear *while* the sysfs file is open?! Or did it take 5 minutes to open the file? If the former, maybe we should fix that too (or instead)? johannes
