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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 16:22:12 +0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: add boot param to disable stack dump on panic
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To: Nir Lichtman <nir@lichtman.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On 2/8/24 15:14, Nir Lichtman wrote:
> In a lot of cases when there is a kernel panic it obscures on the display the previous problem that caused it and the main
> reason is that the call stack prints a lot of lines on the display - and there is no way to scroll back up.
> What led me to make this patch is that I was working on running the kernel on my old computer and when I passed root=/dev/sda
> to the kernel there was a panic and it could not start init, but since the call stack took almost all the space on the screen,
> I couldn't see the available partitions the kernel does detects.
> 
> After this patch, I could just pass in the new boot parameter I added here and then it would not print the call stack,
> and I saw the line in which the kernel prints the available partitions.
> 

Please don't top-post; reply inline with appropriate context instead.

Thanks for the explanation. Now please send v2 with appropriate maintainers
and lists Cc'ed (use scripts/get_maintainer.pl to find ones). Also read
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst before sending.

Ciao!

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