Re: The stability crisis
Anthony Barbachan (barbacha@Hinako.AMBusiness.com)
Thu, 1 Jul 1999 17:20:36 -0400
> having a nice integrated kernel debugger like SGI's kdb would be great
> to resolve problems like these. the patch to dump an oops to a floppy is
> also good, but would it be possible to dump it to a file or a small
> partition on an internal disk instead? Linus, including a feature like
> that would make it a whole lot easier to get high quality oops reports to
> developers.
>
> - Chuck Lever
How about dumping to the swap partition along with a special sequence of
bytes used as a flag. This way when the machine is brought back up the
kernel can then use that special sequence of bytes along with the debug data
to generate a bug report.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/