Re: [PATCH 6/7] qemu: Implement virtio-pstore device

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 14:39:53 +0900
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Well, I dont' know.  As you know, the kernel oops dump is already sent
> to serial device but it's rather slow.  As I wrote in the cover
> letter, enabling ftrace_dump_on_oops makes it even worse..  Also
> pstore saves the (compressed) binary data so I thought it'd be better
> to have a dedicated IO channel.

BTW, I agree with this. It is better to have a quick way to grab the
ftrace buffers when a crash happens, as serial is excruciatingly slow.
Although, currently I still use kexec/kdump, but as Namhyung said, it
depends on crash being up to date. I tend to be sending in updates
every time I have to use it.

-- Steve