Re: [PATCH] spi: remove return value check of debugfs_create_dir()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Apr 24 2023 - 09:40:01 EST


On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 03:17:09PM +0200, Peter Enderborg wrote:
> On 4/24/23 14:53, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >
> >>> We can do things with the debug information without filesystem enabled.
> > What exactly do you mean by this?
> >
> >
> We can read out data from kernel with a ramdumper and analyse with crash.
>
> See https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/kernel_administration_guide/kernel_crash_dump_guide
>
> If it is useful or not I can not say, but the dws->regset. is lost and can not be read with a post mortem debugger.

What is "dws"? What is "regset"?

What is the root problem here?

confused,

greg k-h