Re: [PATCH/RFC v5 4/5]: core: Add dump device to call on oopses and panics

[JÃrn Engel]

On Mon, 30 November 2009 11:40:55 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> 
> The other alternative I was thinking about was to introduce a boolean
> flag, and set it to one as soon as 'lon_end' becomes larger than
> 'log_buf_len'.

I've thought about that as well.  The drawback is that we would have to
check in the regular printk path - by the time the panic notifier is
running it is too late.  So it adds cost to the regular case.

JÃrn

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