Re: [PATCH] [revised -- version 2] Info dump on Oops or panic()

2007-06-28 Thread Joshua Wise
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: Your email client is doing space-stuffing. It's easy enough to fix at this end, but even easier if you fix it ;) Aw darn :( Stupid PINE. I'll fix it for the next patch. + atomic_notifier_call_chain(&info_dumper_list, 0, NULL); [...] So... Pl

Re: [PATCH] [revised -- version 2] Info dump on Oops or panic()

2007-06-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:12:23 -0700 (PDT) Joshua Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Version: 2 > > Background: > When managing a large number of servers, as Google does, it's sometimes > useful to get an "at-a-glance" view of a machine when it crashes. When no > other post-mortem is possible,

Re: [PATCH] [revised -- version 2] Info dump on Oops or panic()

2007-06-28 Thread Joshua Wise
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Kyle McMartin wrote: woah woah woah. This could push critical bits of the register dump or stacktrace off the screen... Barring any other problems with the patch, this should probably be dumped in the oops header, not trailing it where it could hide critical debugging info.