Re: [PATCH] x86_64: remove empty lines from stack traces/oopses

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Aug 15 2008 - 11:26:44 EST



* Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 07:02:19PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > show_trace_log_lvl(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs,
> > > unsigned long *stack, unsigned long bp, char *log_lvl)
> > > {
> > > - printk("\nCall Trace:\n");
> > > + printk("Call Trace:\n");
> > > dump_trace(task, regs, stack, bp, &print_trace_ops, log_lvl);
> > > - printk("\n");
> > > }
> >
> > hm, it's nice to have stack traces stand out a bit, and to not get the
> > 'Call Trace' embedded in the middle of a printk (which happens to crash
> > or produce a stack dump).
>
> Sometimes all you have is 80x25 or just screenshot from some stupid windows
> monitoring program.

> > just to make sure i get the gist of your change, do you have a
> > 'before' and 'after' sample oops, so that we can see the difference?
>
> Any recent oops with and without empty lines after Call trace: and
> after calltrace.

ok - i've queued up your fix in tip/x86/debug.

Arjan, can the removal of empty newlines break the kerneloops.org
parser?

Ingo
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