From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 22 21:02:35 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E38EA10656C6; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:02:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@freebsd.org) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65B798FC1D; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:02:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from porto.topspin.kiev.ua (porto-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.100]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id AAA08450; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:02:32 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from avg@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost.topspin.kiev.ua ([127.0.0.1]) by porto.topspin.kiev.ua with esmtp (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1OyWSW-0001vk-1v; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:02:32 +0300 Message-ID: <4C9A6EE6.5050301@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:02:30 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100918 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin References: <201009211507.o8LF7iVv097676@svn.freebsd.org> <4C9A1602.4020204@freebsd.org> <1285169017.64197.29.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <201009221558.27393.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201009221558.27393.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Gavin Atkinson , src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r212964 - head/sys/kern X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:02:36 -0000 on 22/09/2010 22:58 John Baldwin said the following: > Agreed. FWIW, I actually think that this is the only change needed as > crashinfo is enabled by default in 8.x and later. We already include symbols > in kernels by default now, so just setting dumpdev will give you the same > info you generally can get from a textdump in the form of a simple > /var/crash/core.txt.N file. > > The other benefit of full crashdumps + crashinfo as compared to textdumps is > that a developer can request further information in a PR followup (fire up > kgdb and enter command 'X' and reply with the output). With a textdump any > info not collected by the textdump is lost once the machine reboots after the > crash. Agree++ But what was the reason that dumpdev="AUTO" was reverted? I remember that POLA was quoted at the time. I am not sure what the astonishment actually was - perhaps 'AUTO' was not smart enough and destroyed somebody's data? -- Andriy Gapon