Re: [PATCH] stack2core: show stack message and convert it to core file when kernel die

From: Hui Zhu
Date: Wed Jan 06 2010 - 02:07:46 EST


Hi,

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 17:20, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 01/05/2010 06:04 PM, Hui Zhu wrote:
>> I agree with read the current stack message is better.
>>
>> About the extending, I have some question with it:
>> 1.  markup_oops.pl have itself idea, it try use dmesg| markup_oops.pl
>> show what happen to usr.  This is different with s2c.
>> I am not sure people like it have other function with it.  Too much
>> part of this file need to be change.  It need rewrite, just the oops
>> message parse part can be keep.
>
> Yeah, I think you'll need to refactor it and share only the parsing
> frontend.  Just adding a switch (-m or whatever) which puts it into
> machine-friendly translator mode should do the trick.
>
>> 2.  I use perl to work in a long time before, I know it good at parse
>> the text, but I am not sure it good at handle struct like:
>
> You don't need to handle the data structure at all.  Just make it
> parse the dmesg and output machine-friendly formatted output which can
> be processed by s2c.  ie. just make it do the reformatting.

This idea is very cool. I will do it. Thanks for help. :)

Best regards,
Hui
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