Messages in this thread | | | From | Namhyung Kim <> | Date | Tue, 28 Jun 2016 15:33:18 +0900 | Subject | Re: [QUESTION] Is there a better way to get ftrace dump on guest? |
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Send again to correct addresses, sorry!
On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running some guest machines for kernel development. For debugging > purpose, I use lots of trace_printk() since it's faster than normal > printk(). When kernel crash happens the trace buffer is printed on > console (I set ftrace_dump_on_oops) but it takes too much time. I > don't want to reduce the size of ring buffer as I want to collect the > debug info as much as possible. And I also want to see trace from all > cpu so 'ftrace_dump_on_oop = 2' is not an option. > > I know the kexec/kdump (and the crash tool) can dump and analyze the > trace buffer later. But it's cumbersome to do it everytime and more > importantly, I don't want to spend the memory for the crashkernel. > > So what is the best way to handle this? I'd like to know how others > setup the debugging environment..
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