On (22/02/14 11:13), Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote: > > The additional messages from panic_print could overwrite the oldest > messages when the buffer is full. The only reasonable solution is to > use a large enough log buffer, hence we added an advice into the kernel > parameters documentation about that. By additional panic_print messages you mean that panic_print_sys_info() will print everything (except PANIC_PRINT_ALL_PRINTK_MSG) twice? Do we really need to dump everything twice? show_mem(), show_state(), ftrace_dump(DUMP_ALL). That's quite a bit of extra data. Can instead this be something like (?): @@ -286,6 +289,8 @@ void panic(const char *fmt, ...) */ atomic_notifier_call_chain(&panic_notifier_list, 0, buf); + panic_print_sys_info(panic_print & ~PANIC_PRINT_ALL_PRINTK_MSG); kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_PANIC); /* @@ -316,7 +321,7 @@ void panic(const char *fmt, ...) debug_locks_off(); console_flush_on_panic(CONSOLE_FLUSH_PENDING); + panic_print_sys_info(PANIC_PRINT_ALL_PRINTK_MSG); if (!panic_blink) panic_blink = no_blink; _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec