Rawhide kernel options not enabled?

Steven Rostedt rostedt at goodmis.org
Tue Feb 3 01:20:34 UTC 2009



On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> Do not put down that debugging ability just yet. Would it not be nice to 
> just tell a user to run a script you send him (the script would do all 
> the command line commands) and then the user could send you back the 
> result. The user would not need to reboot or compile another kernel. You 
> would be able to turn on or off anything function trace you would like.

Also note, if your user has access to serial consoles, and many enterprise 
users do, then you could also trace an oops. By setting 
"ftrace_dump_on_oops" in the kernel command line, and have them enable 
function tracing before they do whatever they do to cause the oops. The 
ftrace dump output will dump to the console. If they have serial, then it 
will dump to their serial console where they can record the crash. This 
information can be very handy for us to analyze and find the cause on an 
oops.

-- Steve




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