Re: automatic stacktrace on panic, was: Re: Boot fail as kvm guest

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 04:04:45PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 06:28:25PM +0400, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
> > Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> writes:
> > 
> > > As for automatically outputting stack trace on panic:
> > > this can be a long output, much longer than a .e.g VGA display.
> > > This means that the user has only the tail of the stack trace and
> > > doesn't see the panic message, which, actually, is the most important.
> > 
> > The output should go in the opposite direction then: top frames should
> > be printed last.
> 
> that's not enough: you still miss the panic message.

That's a good point, however, can't we print the panic message again, or
else postpone printing it?

Dave

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