Re: [PATCH] x86/dumpstack: make stack name tags more comprehensible

[Frederic Weisbecker]

2016-11-18 18:46 GMT+01:00 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> NMI stack dumps are bracked by the following tags:
>
>   <NMI>
>   ...
>   <EOE>
>
> The ending tag is kind of confusing if you don't already know what "EOE"
> means (end of exception).  The same ending tag is also used to mark the
> end of all other exceptions' stacks.  For example:
>
>   <#DF>
>   ...
>   <EOE>
>
> And similarly, "EOI" is used as the ending tag for interrupts:
>
>   <IRQ>
>   ...
>   <EOI>
>
> Change the tags to be more comprehensible by making them symmetrical and
> more XML-esque:
>
>   <NMI>
>   ...
>   </NMI>
>
>   <#DF>
>   ...
>   </#DF>
>
>   <IRQ>
>   ...
>   </IRQ>
>
> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>

I like that! I hope not too many tools rely on the old namings.
But dmesg isn't supposed to be a stable ABI anyway.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>