Hi, I know the open project proposal 2010 is closed, but it's just to start a discussion. It would be nice to save oops/panic automatically in a structure/file in ram. At the moment there are two way to save information: mtdoops (save the information in flash), with kdump/kexec (we can extract the dmesg from vmcore file). With these tools there are some drawbacks: 1) There are embedded systems without a flash where to save the information; 2) we could consider this kind of logs too volatile for a flash, I mean there's no reason to store it for a long time, it's important to recover and read them as soon as possible, at next boot for example. 3) kdump requires a lot of ram and resources for embedded systems. 4) kexec is available only for some archs. It would be nice to have a "ramoops" to save in a circular buffer in a persistent ram this kind of information. Any comments? Is there already anything similar out-of-tree? Marco -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
