Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:57:04 -0500 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] print kdump kernel loaded status in stack dump |
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On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 10:02:17 -0800 Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> writes: > > printk("%sHardware name: %s\n", > > log_lvl, dump_stack_arch_desc_str); > > + if (kexec_crash_loaded()) > > + printk("%skdump kernel loaded\n", log_lvl); > > Oops/warnings are getting longer and longer, often scrolling away > from the screen, and if the kernel crashes backscroll does not work > anymore, so precious information is lost. > > Can you merge it with some other line? > > Just a [KDUMP] or so somewhere should be good enough.
Or perhaps we should add it as a TAINT. Not all taints are bad.
-- Steve
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