Re: [PATCH 1/2] panic: ratelimit panic messages

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 21:05:12 -0500 Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > We keep on hacking away at this and things never seem to get much
> > better.  It's still the case that a large number of our oops reports
> > are damaged because the important parts of the oops trace scrolled off
> > the screen.
> > 
> > I therefore propose
> > 
> > 	oops_lines_delay=N,M
> > 
> > which will cause the kernel to pause for M milliseconds after emitting
> > N lines of oops output.  Bonus marks for handling linewrap!
> > 
> > Start the line counter at oops_begin() or thereabouts and then do the
> > delay after N lines have been emitted.  I guess that counter should
> > _not_ be invalidated in oops_end(): if the oops generates 12 lines and
> > then another 100 lines of random printk crap are printed, we still want
> > to put a pause after the 13th line of that random crap, so we can view
> > the oops.
> > 
> > The oops_lines_delay implemetnation should count lines from all CPUs
> > and should block all CPUs during the delay.
> > 
> > I think this would solve the problem which you're seeing, as well as
> > the much larger my-oops-scrolled-off problem?
> 
> Ok.  Forgive me for being thick.  I seem to be lost in the lower layer of
> the oops code for some reason.  I understand your idea and am willing to
> take a crack at implementing it,

ooh, goody.  I'd finally have an answer to all those useless cellphone
jpegs of scrolled-off oops traces.

> I just can't figure out what function to
> stick it in.  I grep'd for oops_begin() and it seemed to be an x86-only
> thing.  Is there a more generic place to put this stuff?

Sorry, braino.  oops_enter() and oops_exit().  All architectures
_should_ be calling oops_enter() right at the start of the oops
handling and oops_exit() right at the end.  They're suitable sites for
adding new stuff.


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