Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 23:28:38 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha support.s src/sys/i386/i386 swtch.s src/sys/kern kern_shutdown.c src/sys/sys systm.h Message-ID: <10277.1074637718@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:09:48 PST." <20040120140012.N97860@root.org>
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In message <20040120140012.N97860@root.org>, Nate Lawson writes: >I'm not against this because of its size, I think it's the wrong way to >go. I'll agree that it is not the ideal direction, but considering that proper tracebacks for panics have been on the wishlist since before I got my commit bit, then I think it is better than nothing. It is interesting to note that most of the positive feedback I have had on this is from people who are not in the heavy-duty kernel development end of things, it is system administrators and people who use FreeBSD for doing embedded things >Most panics are >page faults so you have to go to the traceback anyway as knowing the >file/line of the page fault handler is not useful. I guess I'm getting a more specialized subset of panics reported then, (but then, why would people send page faults to me until they suspected some of my code ?) >I appreciate your desire to improve debugging and hope you'll be >interested in tackling some of the outstanding issues (like the ones I >listed). I'm all for improvements, but I'm also under imminent danger of being crushed if my TODO pile falls over, so somebody [tm] should beat me to it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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