Re: [PATCH v4 00/21] Add Qualcomm Minidump kernel driver related support

From: Trilok Soni
Date: Mon Jul 03 2023 - 17:06:32 EST


On 7/2/2023 1:29 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
On 30/06/2023 18:04, Mukesh Ojha wrote:

We don't add layers when they are not needed, and never when there is no
actual user. If you need the extra "complexity" later, then add it
later when it is needed as who knows when that will ever be.

Please redo this series based on that, thanks.

My bigger issue with this whole series is what would this all look
like if every SoC vendor upstreamed their own custom dumping
mechanism. That would be a mess. (I have similar opinions on the
$soc-vendor hypervisors.)

Mukesh,

LPC CFP is still open. There will be also Android and Kernel Debugging
LPC microconference tracks. Coming with a unified solution could be a
great topic for LPC. Solutions targeting only one user are quite often
frowned upon.

LPC is far out and in November. Can we not have others speak up if they have the similar solution now? We can expand this to linux-kernel and ask for the other SOC vendors to chime in. I am sure that we may have existing solutions which came in for the one user first like Intel RDT if I remember. I am sure ARM MPAM usecase was present at that time but Intel RDT based solution which was x86 specific but accepted.

---Trilok Soni