re: How to get a crash dump with recursive panic?

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

Darren Reed writes:
> On 11/06/2014 4:33 AM, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 04:19:20AM +1000, matthew green wrote:
> >> i haven't looked closely, but i'm pretty sure there is a bug in
> >> the sparc64 crash handling where it sets doing_shutdown and that
> >> triggers the "Skipping crash dump on recursive panic" message,
> >> when infact it hasn't gotten that far yet.
> > 
> > We should avoid leaking it, but I haven't looked closely either.
> 
> So if I call panic() explicitly, that will write a crash dump?

i would try reverting the change i mentioned a few days ago,
or simply comment the inc/dec of "doing_shutdown" in the
sparc64 specific code and see what happens.


.mrg.