[PATCH] print kdump kernel loaded status in stack dump

Andi Kleen ak at linux.intel.com
Thu Jan 18 10:02:17 PST 2018


Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com> writes:
>  		printk("%sHardware name: %s\n",
>  		       log_lvl, dump_stack_arch_desc_str);
> +	if (kexec_crash_loaded())
> +		printk("%skdump kernel loaded\n", log_lvl);

Oops/warnings are getting longer and longer, often scrolling away
from the screen, and if the kernel crashes backscroll does not work
anymore, so precious information is lost.

Can you merge it with some other line?

Just a [KDUMP] or so somewhere should be good enough.

-Andi



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