Re: [PATCH] devcoredump: increase the device delete timeout to 10 mins

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On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 11:44:32AM -0800, Abhinav Kumar wrote:
> There are cases where depending on the size of the devcoredump and the speed
> at which the usermode reads the dump, it can take longer than the current 5 mins
> timeout.
> 
> This can lead to incomplete dumps as the device is deleted once the timeout expires.
> 
> One example is below where it took 6 mins for the devcoredump to be completely read.
> 
> 04:22:24.668 23916 23994 I HWDeviceDRM::DumpDebugData: Opening /sys/class/devcoredump/devcd6/data
> 04:28:35.377 23916 23994 W HWDeviceDRM::DumpDebugData: Freeing devcoredump node

What makes this so slow?  Reading from the kernel shouldn't be the
limit, is it where the data is being sent to?

> Increase the timeout to 10 mins to accommodate system delays and large coredump
> sizes.

Nit, please wrap your changelog texts at 72 columns.

And what is "large"?

thanks,

greg k-h



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