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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 04/17] xenctx: Add command line options -b (--bytes-per-line) and -l (--lines)



On 03/24/14 06:44, Ian Campbell wrote:
On Sat, 2014-03-22 at 16:08 -0400, Don Slutz wrote:
On 03/21/14 10:32, Ian Campbell wrote:
By default only part of the stack is dumped:
Why not dump the whole page by default then? 5 lines seems rather
arbitrary.

5 is what it use to be. Not sure how much the default in linux is.

I have no issue with changing the default to MAX. However I got
from reading Jan Beulich comments in Nov 2013, that these changes
should not be intrusive.


      
"less", "head" or "tail" are unable to change xenctx, only control
what you see of xenctx's output.
Obviously! I'm not sure what your point is though -- my suggestion was
that xenctx should/could output stuff which can be processed with these
tools.

Looks like I misunderstood you.


      
It is not that each change makes a big difference, that happens when 
several are used at one time:
Can we not just improve the default behaviour to be more useful? Having
to give half a dozen different options to get useful output isn't really
all that user friendly.

These are directly in response to:

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/12] xenctx: Add stack address to dump, switch to 16 bytes per line.
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 08:12:44 +0000
From: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
To: Don Slutz <dslutz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>, Don Slutz <Don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


>>> On 06.11.13 at 21:08, Don Slutz <dslutz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Again - why? This makes it just two entries per line for a 64-bit
guest. Pretty little I would say.

Jan



I accept that some options might have to remain in order to work sanely
on 80-column displays but we should aim in the first instance to have
the tool Do The Right/Useful Thing without needing extra options.

I am currently not sure that "Do The Right/Useful Thing" is the same
for all the people involved.

Are you asking for some kind of config file that allows a developer to select
their preferred setting of options, or just to determine the best defaults?

Last I knew Jan Beulich does not what -t and you and I do. The issue is that
-t by default pushes the output to > 80 columns.

ÂÂ -Don Slutz

Ian.


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