Re: [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Add a kmsg_dumper that flushes console output on panic

2015-11-24 Thread Denis Kirjanov
On 11/24/15, Russell Currey wrote: > On BMC machines, console output is controlled by the OPAL firmware and is > only flushed when its pollers are called. When the kernel is in a panic > state, it no longer calls these pollers and thus console output does not > completely flush, causing some outp

[PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Add a kmsg_dumper that flushes console output on panic

2015-11-23 Thread Russell Currey
On BMC machines, console output is controlled by the OPAL firmware and is only flushed when its pollers are called. When the kernel is in a panic state, it no longer calls these pollers and thus console output does not completely flush, causing some output from the panic to be lost. This patch ad