Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261166AbTEHEVk (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 00:21:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261168AbTEHEVk (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 00:21:40 -0400 Received: from air-2.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:18071 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261166AbTEHEVj (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 00:21:39 -0400 Message-ID: <32847.4.64.196.31.1052368454.squirrel@www.osdl.org> Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 21:34:14 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: garbled oopsen From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: In-Reply-To: <20030507184054.684e2bd0.akpm@digeo.com> References: <20030507180530.23d0e780.rddunlap@osdl.org> <20030507184054.684e2bd0.akpm@digeo.com> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Cc: , X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 843 Lines: 27 > "Randy.Dunlap" wrote: >> >> I have several oopses that are garbled. > > Use kgdb. > >> Can these be cleaned up in any reasonable way? > > It needs some additional spinlock in there. People have moaned for over a > year, patches have been floating about but nobody has taken the time to > finish one off and submit it. > > It's never bothered me, because availability of a serial console equates to > availability of kgdb. I'm more interested in having it clean for people who use 2.6.x. Yes, I can get by without it or by using kgdb, but that's not the point IMO. ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/