> > 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
