On Tue, Jul 07, 2026 at 09:53:34AM -0700, Breno Leitao wrote:
> The current vmcoreinfo implementation defaults to enabled, so I wanted to
> preserve that behavior to avoid silently removing symbols that existing
> tools may depend on. Would you prefer a different default?
You do know Linus' stance on enabling things by default which are not
ubiquitous, right?
Logging hw errors in vmcore is really necessary to be enabled everywhere?
> I agree the sysfs exposure duplicates existing infrastructure, points
> taken. However, tracking fatal hardware errors provides value at crash
> analysis time—it lets us quickly determine whether a fatal hardware
> error occurred during the kernel's lifetime, which is useful for
> root-cause attribution.
Yes, that's why you put it in vmcore. You can't read sysfs if you encounter
a fatal hw error.
> For this, would you like to keep it in vmcore info (as of today), or
> move to RAS subsystem?
You mean, would I like to pay attention to more patches than now?
Not really - I can barely manage as it is.
:-)
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