Messages in this thread |  | | From | Frederic Weisbecker <> | Date | Sat, 19 Nov 2016 16:49:46 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/dumpstack: make stack name tags more comprehensible |
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2016-11-18 18:46 GMT+01:00 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>: > NMI stack dumps are bracked by the following tags: > > <NMI> > ... > <EOE> > > The ending tag is kind of confusing if you don't already know what "EOE" > means (end of exception). The same ending tag is also used to mark the > end of all other exceptions' stacks. For example: > > <#DF> > ... > <EOE> > > And similarly, "EOI" is used as the ending tag for interrupts: > > <IRQ> > ... > <EOI> > > Change the tags to be more comprehensible by making them symmetrical and > more XML-esque: > > <NMI> > ... > </NMI> > > <#DF> > ... > </#DF> > > <IRQ> > ... > </IRQ> > > Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
I like that! I hope not too many tools rely on the old namings. But dmesg isn't supposed to be a stable ABI anyway.
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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