From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: allow configuring max stack dump depth
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:24:13 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18723.38125.245930.196074@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1225534317.3560.8.camel@johannes.berg>
Johannes Berg writes:
> On my screen, when something crashes, I only have space for maybe
> 16 functions of the stack trace before the information above it
> scrolls off the screen. It's easy to hack the kernel to print out
> only that much, but it's harder to remember to do it. This patch
> introduces a config option for it so that I can keep the setting
> in my config.
Could you make it depend on DEBUG_KERNEL or ADVANCED or something?
> + help
> + This option allows you to set the stack depth that the kernel
> + prints out in case your display is too small.
The "in case" is a little ambiguous here. I suggest:
+ This option allows you to set the maximum depth that the kernel
+ prints in stack traces. This can be useful if your display
+ is too small.
Paul.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-19 4:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-01 10:11 [PATCH] powerpc: allow configuring max stack dump depth Johannes Berg
2008-11-19 4:24 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2008-11-19 11:48 ` [PATCH v2] " Johannes Berg
2008-11-19 22:10 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-11-20 13:20 ` Johannes Berg
2008-11-20 13:24 ` [PATCH v3] " Johannes Berg
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