diagnosing freezes (DRI?)

[Tim Kientzle]

Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:47:55AM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
>> Gary Jennejohn wrote:
>>> deeptech71 at gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> This kernel output really looks bad:
>>>> Wai
>>>> tSiynngc i(nmga xd is6k0s ,s evcnoonddess)  rfeomra isnyisntge.m. .pr0o 
>>>> cess `syncer' to stop...0 done
>>> I can't speak to the rest, but this is probably because you have SMP and
>>> don't have `options PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=128' in your kernel config.
>> Is there any reason this shouldn't be the default?
> 
> The only reason I am aware of is that the buffer is allocated on the
> stack. 128 bytes is not so small for our kernel stacks.

How about 32?

Anything larger than 1 would make it much easier to read these messages.

Tim