[igt-dev] [PATCH i-g-t] igt: Stop requesting ftrace dumps on oops by default

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Mon Nov 18 10:27:22 UTC 2019


Quoting Petri Latvala (2019-11-18 10:07:26)
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 03:26:45PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > They have lived past their usefulness as now we frequently lose vital
> > debug information because we are spamming unrelated GEM traces. We can
> > add the spam directly to GEM_BUG_ON(), and enable it ourselves if we
> > truly need the trace-on-oops.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> > Cc: Martin Peres <martin.peres at linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Petri Latvala <petri.latvala at intel.com>
> > Cc: Tomi Sarvela <tomi.p.sarvela at intel.com>
> 
> Do we want to call it --trace-on-oops or --ftrace-on-oops?

I was thinking "trace" was slightly more generic than "ftrace" and so
might cover some more evils in future. Not that I have any foreknowledge
of what else we might stick in here. :)
-Chris


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