Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932468AbXF2CCT (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:02:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764132AbXF2CCK (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:02:10 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:51778 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764893AbXF2CCJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:02:09 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:01:46 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Jiri Kosina Cc: Joshua Wise , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, thockin@google.com, mikew@google.com, masouds@google.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Info dump on Oops or panic() Message-Id: <20070628190146.64af724a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) 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: 800 Lines: 21 On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:39:33 +0200 (CEST) Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Joshua Wise wrote: > > > This patch adds a call chain to be invoked when the system oopses or > > panics. > > That seems really fragile, processing a callchain when the system goes to > panic is not guaranteed to work. Wouldn't simple function call have higher > chances of survival? That was my complaint, but then we remembered die_chain, which is already doing that. Joshua will take a look at using die_chain instead of adding another one. - 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/