Re: [{patch} print_eip for 2.0.34] Re: 2.0.34 hangs

Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Tue, 23 Jun 1998 14:09:10 +0200


Hi!

> >I did it by kernel reserving one line at the end of screen for its
> >info. It is fine here: it does not disturb normal console operation
>
> Printing only one line I would miss the kernel trace of the lock. Also I
> need an additional info per address to take care of the order of the
> trace.

Is it possible to fit all info at single, long line?

> The print-eip patch print directly on video ram memory mapped and one
> improvement could be to fake the scrolling of the video and allow the
> printing of the box always in the same position (I never tried to do that,
> maybe it' s trivial).
>
> >(except for X) (I'm running it all the time). [My monitor is
>
> Ugh?!? You can run X whith your patch applyed?

Yes, I'm happily running X. My patch does not doo much in such case,
however. (Except that it used to corrupt few byes of X video ram,
which did not matter too much.)

> >800x600. I'm using 14 point font, which gives 100x42, with 12
> >scanlines left.] I thought that you might be interested in this...
>
> Yes, I' d like to take a look at the patch to see if I can merge some code
> to allow the box to remain in the same position.

Ook, I'll try to generate one.

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