Re: [PATCH] print kdump kernel loaded status in stack dump

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Jan 18 2018 - 13:02:32 EST


Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> printk("%sHardware name: %s\n",
> log_lvl, dump_stack_arch_desc_str);
> + if (kexec_crash_loaded())
> + printk("%skdump kernel loaded\n", log_lvl);

Oops/warnings are getting longer and longer, often scrolling away
from the screen, and if the kernel crashes backscroll does not work
anymore, so precious information is lost.

Can you merge it with some other line?

Just a [KDUMP] or so somewhere should be good enough.

-Andi