Simon, who sent you the mail - if it's from our team then yes it will go
into the main stream - once we have closed some admin and legal issues. If
it's not our group then I'll find out more about the code change.
Richard
Richard Moore - RAS Project Lead - Linux Technology Centre (ATS-PIC).
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux
Office: (+44) (0)1962-817072, Mobile: (+44) (0)7768-298183
IBM UK Ltd, MP135 Galileo Centre, Hursley Park, Winchester, SO21 2JN, UK
Simon Falvey <simon.falvey@xxxxxxxxxxx>@oss.sgi.com on 01/08/2001 15:36:09
Please respond to Simon Falvey <simon.falvey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent by: owner-lkcd@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: Richard J Moore/UK/IBM@IBMGB
cc: "'lkcd@xxxxxxxxxxx'" <lkcd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: LKCD in mainstream release?
Richard,
I have been sent an e-mail from a fellow IBMer of yours from India
letting me know that a "test" release of the patch sent out to the
mailling list actually contains ALT+SYSRQ+c key sequence which will
invoke a crash dump. I presume that this will make it into the download
area at some point for general consumption.
Cheers
Simon
Richard J Moore wrote:
>Simon,
>
>Dump triggers is certainly a thing of interest to us. But not just a
>keyboard sequence, and API call and in fact the ability to dump from any
>code path. That latter can be achieved today using DProbes to trigger a
>dump. What we're considering is enhancing lkcd to be able to let the
system
>continue to run having invoked a dump for non-crash reasons.
>
>Question: what's the right key sequence?
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>Presumably there's no definitive answer. In which case we need a
>configurable sequence. See any problems with that?
>
>Richard
>
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>Richard Moore - RAS Project Lead - Linux Technology Centre (ATS-PIC).
>http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux
>Office: (+44) (0)1962-817072, Mobile: (+44) (0)7768-298183
>IBM UK Ltd, MP135 Galileo Centre, Hursley Park, Winchester, SO21 2JN, UK
>
>
>Simon Falvey <simon.falvey@xxxxxxxxxxx>@oss.sgi.com on 01/08/2001 08:39:25
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>Please respond to Simon Falvey <simon.falvey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>Sent by: owner-lkcd@xxxxxxxxxxx
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>To: "'lkcd@xxxxxxxxxxx'" <lkcd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>cc:
>Subject: LKCD in mainstream release?
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>Hi all,
>
>Does any one have any idea when we can expect lkcd in the main kernel
>release? It seems to be pretty stable now.
>
>Also has anyone considered putting a hook into the SysRq key sequence
>to get it to crash on demand? I put one in on my system and find it very
>useful in diagnosing hangs.
>
>Simon
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