From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261188AbVAGC7G (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 21:59:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261193AbVAGC7G (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 21:59:06 -0500 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:51647 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261188AbVAGC7D (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 21:59:03 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/printk.c lockless access From: Alan Cox To: "Randy.Dunlap" Cc: Anton Blanchard , Andrew Morton , Linas Vepstas , Linux Kernel Mailing List , torvalds@osdl.org In-Reply-To: <41DDD6FA.2050403@osdl.org> References: <20050106195812.GL22274@austin.ibm.com> <20050106161241.11a8d07c.akpm@osdl.org> <20050107002648.GD14239@krispykreme.ozlabs.ibm.com> <41DDD6FA.2050403@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1105062162.24896.311.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 01:54:41 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Gwe, 2005-01-07 at 00:25, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > Actually Id love to do this on ppc64 too. Its always difficult to get a > > customer to remember to save away an oops report. > > We need /proc/kallsyms, /proc/modules, etc. also.... > can you capture all of that for a complete oops/panic analysis? > (short of kdump, that is) Ditto on x86 - several of us raised the ideal of ACPI actually defining a "log area" in the E820 map types or some other ACPI resource that would be a chunk of RAM used for logs that wasn't going to get bios eaten on a soft reboot but could be reclaimed by the OS but we didn't get it.