Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:51:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
       Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>,
       "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
       Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/13 v2] ftrace: do not trace init sections
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On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> > 
> > The ftrace buffer can be dumped out on oops. I'm not sure if it is 
> > always on. If it is, I need to make it default off and add a command 
> > line and sysctl to turn it on. Otherwise, we will have people 
> > complaining about the extra output to the console on oops.
> 
> it dumps currently if a tracer is enabled. I saw it a couple of times 
> already during crashes.

That's right. I owe you a patch. I'll write one up.

-- Steve

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