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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
	Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>,
	luca@coelho.fi, kvalo@adurom.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] firmware coredump: add new firmware coredump class
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 21:00:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1409770842.911.18.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140903143814.GA37365@ubuntu-hedt> (sfid-20140903_163820_105145_84ED4B2A)

On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 09:38 -0500, Seth Forshee wrote:

> Overall I think this looks pretty sensible. The thing that worries me
> though is firmware which might crash repeatedly in a short period of
> time, resulting in a proliferation of coredumps and eating up all
> available RAM. How about a limit of one active coredump per device or
> something similar?

Oh, right, I completely forgot about that. Not sure what context I can
iterate the class device list, but worst case I have to add another
list.

We likely want to store the first dump then, I suppose?

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-03 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-03 11:15 Johannes Berg
2014-09-03 14:19 ` Daniel Vetter
2014-09-03 19:05   ` Johannes Berg
2014-09-03 19:24     ` Daniel Vetter
2014-09-03 14:38 ` Seth Forshee
2014-09-03 19:00   ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2014-09-03 19:15     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-09-03 19:21       ` Johannes Berg

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