[PATCH] panic.c: export panic_on_oops

[Ingo Molnar]

* Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:36:38 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > I agree with the "save kernel buffer on panic" thing, but I disagree with 
> > making it anything new, and hooking into "printk()" or the console 
> > subsystem AT ALL. That's just bogus, stupid, and WRONG.
> > 
> > What you can do is to just flush the 'log_buf' buffer (or as much of it as 
> > you want - the buffer may be a megabyte in size, and maybe you only want 
> > to flush the last 8kB or something like that) on oops. And _not_ mix this 
> > up with anything else.
> 
> What he said.  I did it that way in the Digeo kernel back in 2002. 
> Worked good.
> 
> Doing it via a console is rather weird.  It will need core kernel 
> changes to do it properly.
> 
> Perhaps oops_enter() is a good place to mark the start of the log, and 
> flush it within oops_exit().

Simplest would be to do the last 2K in oops_exit()? That gives the oops, 
and the history leading up to it. Since the blocking is 2K, the extra 
log output is for free.

(unless the oops is larger than 2K - but that is rather rare.)

	Ingo