Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 25 Apr 2018 09:54:55 -0700
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r332959 - head/sys/kern
Message-ID:  <5237617.Ai8m1U92WL@ralph.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <201804241854.w3OIsKuQ083232@repo.freebsd.org>
References:  <201804241854.w3OIsKuQ083232@repo.freebsd.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tuesday, April 24, 2018 06:54:20 PM Conrad Meyer wrote:
> Author: cem
> Date: Tue Apr 24 18:54:20 2018
> New Revision: 332959
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/332959
> 
> Log:
>   panic: Optionally, trace secondary panics
>   
>   To diagnose and fix secondary panics, it is useful to have a stack trace.
>   When panic tracing is enabled, optionally trace secondary panics as well.
>   
>   The option is configured with the tunable/sysctl debug.trace_all_panics.
>   
>   (The original concern that inspired only tracing the primary panic was
>   likely that the secondary trace may scroll the original panic message or trace
>   off the screen.  This is less of a concern for serial consoles with logging.
>   Not everything has a serial console, though, so the behavior is optional.)

Note that KDB_TRACE is enabled by default, so you would need it to always
default to false to preserve existing behavior by default.

-- 
John Baldwin



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?5237617.Ai8m1U92WL>