[PATCH V4] kernel, add bug_on_warn
Andi Kleen
ak at linux.intel.com
Tue Oct 28 05:44:25 PDT 2014
> > I suppose ... but that would mean I would have to explain to an end user the
> > elaborate process of enabling kdb, inserting a break point, etc. The whole
> > purpose of this is to let an end user panic on WARN() easily.
> >
> > Asking an end user to enable kdb is magnitudes worse than asking them to
> > recompile a kernel.
>
> Agreed. Asking a customer to setup and run kdb and put breakpoints is much
> more pain than simply asking to reboot kernel with a command line option.
If you have a command line option to execute kdb commands you still
would only have a command line option, just a slightly longer one.
kdb="on, bp warn_slowpath_common sr c, go"
But it would be a generic facility instead of a special purpose hack.
-Andi
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