Re: [PATCH] Stack trace dedup

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> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:21 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro
> <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> This doesn't build.
> >> ---
> >
> > This is slightly reticence changelog. Can you please explain a purpose
> > and benefit?
> 
> Hi:
> 
> Sorry about the spam. This is a patch that I was preparing to send
> upstream but not ready yet. I don't know why it got sent out ( must be
> myself did something wrong on my keyboard ) .

No problem. I have a same experience, to be honest. 

> In a short, this eliminate the duplication of task stack trace in dump
> messages. The problem w/ fixed size of dmesg ring buffer limits how
> many task trace to be logged. When the duplication remains high, we
> lose important information. This patch reduces the duplication by
> dumping the first task stack trace only for contiguous duplications.

Seems reasonable.

> 
> I will prepare it later with full commit description.

OK, I'm looking for it.


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