Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Dec 2010 01:31:44 +0200 (EET) | From | Jouko Orava <> | Subject | Custom kernel logging using an USB microcontroller? |
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Hello,
Would any of you happen to have written a kernel module for custom kernel logging to a USB microcontroller?
I'm having unexpected shutdowns/reboots with absolutely no sign of the cause in any logs, when using the radeon driver heavily, and having kernel MCE support enabled. Disabling kernel MCE support seems to eliminate the problem. See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30349 for details.
I don't have suitable hardware for a serial console, so this is proving really difficult to investigate.
I do, however, have a USB AVR microcontroller (pjrc.com/teensy), which has a few thousand bytes of RAM; I'd like to use it as a custom logging device. Specifically, I need an in-kernel interface to log directly to the USB microcontroller, so I can find out the codepath causing the problems I'm having. (I suspect thermal or voltage misreporting, so a printk interface would be useful.) I don't really want nor need to save the entire kernel log.
Since these USB microcontrollers are dirt cheap (24 USD), need only an USB cable to work, and are very easy to program as HID devices using avr-gcc, it occurs to me that this has probably been already done. It seems like a useful tool for any kernel or kernel module developer.
So, any pointers to existing code I could adapt? Or hints on how the kernel-side logging via USB should be done?
Thanks for your time, Jouko Orava
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