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From: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@google.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, San Mehat <san@google.com>,
Duncan Laurie <dlaurie@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/6] Add oops notification chain.
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:43:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTim4fG0-F0+E-DHa4=XGdk1rFbRA68nvt9bfURiK@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D3F4275.50709@garzik.org>
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
> On 01/25/2011 03:01 PM, Mike Waychison wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Greg KH<greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 04:24:39PM -0800, Mike Waychison wrote:
>>>>
>>>> From: Aaron Durbin<adurbin@google.com>
>>>>
>>>> Later firmware patches in this series would like to be able to be
>>>> notified whenever an oops occurs on the system, so that it can be
>>>> recorded in the boot log.
>>>>
>>>> This patch introduces a notifier_block called "oops_notifier_list"
>>>> so that drivers can register to get called whenever an Oops is
>>>> triggered.
>>>
>>> But we already have a panic notifier list. Why create a new one?
>>> What's wrong with the existing one that doesn't work properly for you?
>>
>> AFAICT, the panic notifier list doesn't get called on oops.
>
> Have you tried playing with panic_on_oops ?
Yes. We actually run in that setup. However, oops != panic. They are 2
distinct events. Sometimes we panic without the oops under certain
situations. That is why it is desirable to have 2 distinct events.
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-25 21:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-25 0:24 [PATCH v1 0/6] google firmware support Mike Waychison
2011-01-25 0:24 ` [PATCH v1 1/6] Add oops notification chain Mike Waychison
2011-01-25 2:06 ` Greg KH
2011-01-25 20:01 ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-25 21:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-01-25 21:43 ` Aaron Durbin [this message]
2011-01-25 21:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-01-25 22:21 ` Aaron Durbin
2011-01-26 2:48 ` Greg KH
2011-01-26 21:50 ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-25 0:24 ` [PATCH v1 2/6] Introduce CONFIG_GOOGLE_FIRMWARE Mike Waychison
2011-01-25 0:24 ` [PATCH v1 3/6] driver: Google EFI SMI Mike Waychison
2011-01-25 3:17 ` Greg KH
2011-01-25 23:12 ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-26 2:46 ` Greg KH
2011-01-26 23:58 ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-27 1:22 ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-27 23:41 ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-28 2:56 ` Greg KH
2011-02-20 4:44 ` Matt Domsch
2011-02-21 13:58 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-01-27 10:43 ` Alan Cox
2011-01-27 19:22 ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-28 2:55 ` Greg KH
2011-01-28 2:59 ` Greg KH
2011-01-25 0:24 ` [PATCH v1 4/6] driver: Google Bootlog Mike Waychison
2011-01-25 0:49 ` Alan Cox
2011-01-25 1:38 ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-25 9:43 ` Alan Cox
2011-01-25 0:25 ` [PATCH v1 5/6] Allow prepending to the dmesg Mike Waychison
2011-01-25 1:01 ` Andrew Morton
2011-01-25 0:25 ` [PATCH v1 6/6] driver: Google Memory Console Mike Waychison
2011-01-25 2:00 ` Greg KH
2011-01-25 3:01 ` [PATCH v1 0/6] google firmware support Greg KH
2011-01-25 19:58 ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-26 2:47 ` Greg KH
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