Re: Kernel crashing and log buffers...

2009-06-26 Thread Robin Getz
OK - so after a bit more digging into things (and a poke by Mike) - I think most of the stuff already exists. Normal run time issues: -- - MTD_OOPS - on 2007-06-28 this was added to Linus's tree: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/18/234 CONFIG_MTD_OOPS tristate

Re: Kernel crashing and log buffers...

2009-06-26 Thread David VomLehn
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:39:50AM -0400, Robin Getz wrote: OK - so after a bit more digging into things (and a poke by Mike) - I think most of the stuff already exists. Normal run time issues: -- - MTD_OOPS - on 2007-06-28 this was added to Linus's tree:

Re: Kernel crashing and log buffers...

2009-06-26 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 13:42, David VomLehn wrote: On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:39:50AM -0400, Robin Getz wrote: OK - so after a bit more digging into things (and a poke by Mike) - I think most of the stuff already exists. Normal run time issues: --  - MTD_OOPS - on

Re: Kernel crashing and log buffers...

2009-06-26 Thread Robin Getz
On Fri 26 Jun 2009 13:42, David VomLehn pondered: On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:39:50AM -0400, Robin Getz wrote: OK - so after a bit more digging into things (and a poke by Mike) - I think most of the stuff already exists. Normal run time issues: -- - MTD_OOPS

Re: Kernel crashing and log buffers...

2009-06-14 Thread Robin Getz
On Sat 13 Jun 2009 14:59, Wolfgang Denk pondered: Dear Russell King, In message 20090613102642.gb7...@flint.arm.linux.org.uk you wrote: The other way I've seen people read out crash messages is using a debugger to dump the kernel's log buffer directly. That seems to work as well as

Re: Kernel crashing and log buffers...

2009-06-13 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Russell King, In message 20090613102642.gb7...@flint.arm.linux.org.uk you wrote: The other way I've seen people read out crash messages is using a debugger to dump the kernel's log buffer directly. That seems to work as well as any other method, and has the advantage that it doesn't

Re: Kernel crashing and log buffers...

2009-06-11 Thread David VomLehn
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:26:40PM -0400, Robin Getz wrote: On 17 Oct 2007, after much discussion and debate, Mike added add two new functions for reading the kernel log buffer (from kernel space).

Re: Kernel crashing and log buffers...

2009-06-11 Thread David VomLehn
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 02:52:38PM -0400, Robin Getz wrote: On Thu 11 Jun 2009 13:53, David VomLehn pondered: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:26:40PM -0400, Robin Getz wrote: ... Our kernel does crash, so we have to do this. I had submitted a patch a while ago that tweaks emit_log_char, but this

Re: Kernel crashing and log buffers...

2009-06-11 Thread David VomLehn
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:22:57AM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: David VomLehn wrote: Our kernel does crash, so we have to do this. I had submitted a patch a while ago that tweaks emit_log_char, but this was bounced, reasonably, because it would be interferring with the great majority of people

Re: Kernel crashing and log buffers...

2009-06-11 Thread Grant Erickson
On 6/11/09 11:52 AM, Robin Getz wrote: On Thu 11 Jun 2009 13:53, David VomLehn pondered: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:26:40PM -0400, Robin Getz wrote: I would be interested in Paul and Russell - how have you solved this issue? (Or do your kernel's never crash? :) Our kernel does crash, so we

Re: Kernel crashing and log buffers...

2009-06-11 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 13:53, David VomLehn wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:26:40PM -0400, Robin Getz wrote: On 17 Oct 2007, after much discussion and debate, Mike added add two new functions for reading the kernel log buffer (from kernel space).

Re: Kernel crashing and log buffers...

2009-06-11 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear David VomLehn, In message 20090612003302.ga23...@cuplxvomd02.corp.sa.net you wrote: However, the value and what's being proposed here and what I and others proposed--at least in the embedded kingdom--seems high and the features and implementation needn't be mutually exclusive. I