From: Randolph Bentson <bentson@holmsjoen.com>
To: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pgw99@doc.ic.ac.uk
Subject: Re: PATCH : LEDs - possibly the most pointless kernel subsystem ever
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:40:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030729134046.A8007@grieg.holmsjoen.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307292038.h6TKcqlu000338@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>; from john@grabjohn.com on Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 09:38:52PM +0100
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 09:38:52PM +0100, John Bradford wrote:
> Ah, I just thought, for debugging purposes we could have LEDs for:
>
> * BKL taken
> * Servicing interrupt
> * Kernel stack usage > 2K
In the way olden days we used the console lights for a realtime
display of buffer use on a PDP-11. This type of realtime display
can be most useful, especially if it's easily configurable.
--
Randolph Bentson
bentson@holmsjoen.com
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-29 20:38 PATCH : LEDs - possibly the most pointless kernel subsystem ever John Bradford
2003-07-29 20:37 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-29 21:34 ` Philip Graham Willoughby
2003-07-29 20:40 ` Randolph Bentson [this message]
2003-07-29 21:15 ` Ryan Flowers
2003-07-29 20:43 ` Eli Carter
2003-07-30 6:09 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-07-30 6:37 ` Helge Deller
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-30 18:50 John Bradford
2003-07-30 16:08 John Bradford
2003-07-30 17:44 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-30 18:50 ` Marc Giger
2003-07-30 19:05 ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-07-30 22:22 ` Brian McGroarty
2003-07-30 18:56 ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-07-30 19:02 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-30 19:06 ` Marc Giger
2003-07-30 19:16 ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-07-31 8:31 ` jw schultz
2003-07-30 15:50 John Bradford
2003-07-30 12:27 "Andrey Borzenkov"
2003-07-29 19:15 John Bradford
2003-07-29 19:51 ` Tim Hockin
2003-07-29 20:09 ` Joel Jaeggli
2003-07-29 21:20 ` Kent Borg
2003-07-29 21:44 ` Philip Graham Willoughby
2003-07-30 21:44 ` Mike Jagdis
2003-07-30 12:15 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-29 15:17 Philip Graham Willoughby
2003-07-29 18:00 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-30 11:45 ` Jamey Hicks
2003-07-30 12:27 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-30 6:36 ` CaT
2003-07-30 13:00 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-30 13:20 ` CaT
2003-07-30 23:28 ` Greg KH
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