Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Oct 2014 05:44:25 -0700 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V4] kernel, add bug_on_warn |
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> > I suppose ... but that would mean I would have to explain to an end user the > > elaborate process of enabling kdb, inserting a break point, etc. The whole > > purpose of this is to let an end user panic on WARN() easily. > > > > Asking an end user to enable kdb is magnitudes worse than asking them to > > recompile a kernel. > > Agreed. Asking a customer to setup and run kdb and put breakpoints is much > more pain than simply asking to reboot kernel with a command line option.
If you have a command line option to execute kdb commands you still would only have a command line option, just a slightly longer one.
kdb="on, bp warn_slowpath_common sr c, go"
But it would be a generic facility instead of a special purpose hack.
-Andi
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