Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:41:22 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/Requirements/Design] h/w error reporting |
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* Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:52:40AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > Also, lets not focus now on implementation. Let's try to concentrate on > > what we want the tools to be able to do. > > > > For example, I would like: > > > > Very small entries, and pick and chose what I want in my entries. > > > > A way to read it fast to a file or over the network (splice). > > > > The read backwards seems like a cool idea, but I would not want to throw > > away the read forwards part either. > > It would also be cool to be able to allocate those buffers as early as possible, > even if before MCA is enabled, so that I won't have to copy MCE data which got > logged before the tracing subsystem got enabled to the buffers proper.
We could even have some (small) statically enabled build-time buffer that could be enabled straight away before any allocators are enabled.
Thanks,
Ingo
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