Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:02:33 -0500 | From | Jason Wessel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/5] Always print panic message on current console |
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Bernhard Walle wrote: > Jesse Barnes schrieb: > >> It's called in the panic notifier atm. Yeah sounds like kexec vs >> notifiers should be reordered a bit (or the current panic notifier >> should be split into notify and "yes we actually failed to do anything" >> cases). >> > > Well, we had that discussion several times. But maybe the opinion of > some developers changed because now there would be an in-kernel user of > notification before kexec. >
The other internal kernel user would be kdb (granted it is not merged to the mainline at this point). The prototype that we demonstrated at LPC hooked the panic notification first and passed the string that was passed to the panic.
Where KMS is integrated with KDB all the switching is dynamic and you do get a chance to see what happened as well as interact with the debugger. The argument of folks who only care about kexec has always been they want the first right of anything to get to kexec before anything could get worse by going down any other code paths.
The kms does not have the choice to dynamically configure the behavior on panic, where as kdb/kgdb is something you activate if you plan on debugging (meaning user preference is clear). Perhaps two notifiers is the right answer.
Jason.
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