From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dump_stack on panic
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:17:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071031111724.GB27084@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0710310653190.12724@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
> Thinking about this more. Of the Linux users I asked, they think a kernel
> panic is a bug in the kernel anyway (or at least something in the kernel
> went wrong). So if panics will point users to the kernel anyway, then why
> leave out possible vital information from those panics that were caused by
> an actual kernel bug.
On a no root found panic (which are likely the majority of all panics)
the stack dump is about 100% useless.
I also think it's a very bad idea to add them to machine checks again
for psychological reasons.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-31 11:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-31 0:02 Steven Rostedt
2007-10-31 0:14 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-31 0:30 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-10-31 8:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-31 10:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-31 10:41 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-31 10:58 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-10-31 11:17 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-10-31 11:39 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-10-31 11:53 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-31 14:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-31 15:00 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-10-31 16:28 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-31 16:39 ` Steven Rostedt
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