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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> seems useful to debug crashes that happen before I read userspace.

Hmm, I think it might be better to separate this from the dump_on_oops.
How about a ftrace_default_tracer parameter?

If one is defined, it is activated as soon as it is initialized. This way 
we decouple the dump_on_oops, which we may not always want, and a way to 
start tracers before the switch to user space.

-- Steve