[Intel-gfx] [RFC] kernel/panic: Repeat the line and caller information at the end of the OOPS

Lofstedt, Marta marta.lofstedt at intel.com
Tue Feb 27 11:12:52 UTC 2018


OK cool I'll look out for it landing, CI_DRM_3838 or CI_DRM_3839 I guess.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Wilson [mailto:chris at chris-wilson.co.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 12:50 PM
> To: intel-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
> Cc: Lofstedt, Marta <marta.lofstedt at intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [RFC] kernel/panic: Repeat the line and caller information at the
> end of the OOPS
> 
> Quoting Chris Wilson (2018-02-26 14:29:56)
> > For large oops dump, for example if ftrace is included, we can easily
> > exceed the storage buffer and lose the most important bit of
> > information: where the OOPS occurred. So repeat the location
> > information just before the end marker.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> > Cc: Marta Lofstedt <marta.lofstedt at intel.com>
> 
> I've plonked this in topic/core-for-CI to see if it is effective in helping us nail a
> few bugs.
> -Chris


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