[Crash-utility] Cell/B.E. SPU commands extension

Lucio Correia luciojhc at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri May 25 17:17:55 UTC 2007


> Lucio Correia wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've developed this crash extension to analyze SPU specific data for
> > Cell/B.E. processor. This extension makes use of some important data
> > saved by this kernel patch (that is not mainline yet)
> > http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/cbe-oss-dev/2007-May/001848.html during the
> > crash dump.
> >
> > I would like to check if there is any issue with the code.
> >
> 
> Functionally it looks fine.
> 
> I changed the _init() function to just do an error(INFO, ...)
> so I could load the extensions, and the only suggestion
> I can make is purely aesthetic, which would be to make
> the "help" messages 80 characters or less like the regular
> commands are.  In other words, the "DESCRIPTION" section
> outputs, and the sentences in in the "spuctx" EXAMPLE
> section are kind of ugly the way that they run on with
> no linefeeds.
> 
> But like I said before, I don't see any issues/problems
> with the code -- pretty nifty extension...
> 
> Dave
> 

Thanks for the comments, Dave. I'm correcting these issues.

Regards,

-- 
Lucio Correia
Software Engineer
IBM LTC Brazil




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