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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86, add hypervisor name to dump_stack() [v4]
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 04:26:33PM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> Debugging crash, panics, stack trace WARN_ONs, etc., from both virtual and
> bare-metal boots can get difficult very quickly. While there are ways to
> decipher the output and determine if the output is from a virtual guest,
> the in-kernel hypervisors now have a single registration point
> and set x86_hyper. We can use this to output additional debug
> information during a panic/oops/stack trace.
>
> Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
> Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
> Cc: Marcelo Tostatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: x86@kernel.org
>
> [v2]: Modifications suggested by Ingo and added changes for similar output
> from process.c
>
> [v3]: Unify common code and move output to end of line

Looks useful.

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.


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