From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267327AbUG1X6O (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 19:58:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267344AbUG1X6O (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 19:58:14 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:39323 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267327AbUG1X6L (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 19:58:11 -0400 Subject: Re: [Fastboot] Re: Announce: dumpfs v0.01 - common RAS output API From: Alan Cox To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Andrew Morton , suparna@in.ibm.com, fastboot@osdl.org, mbligh@aracnet.com, jbarnes@engr.sgi.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <16734.1090513167@ocs3.ocs.com.au> <20040725235705.57b804cc.akpm@osdl.org> <200407280903.37860.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> <25870000.1091042619@flay> <20040728133337.06eb0fca.akpm@osdl.org> <1091044742.31698.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1091055311.31923.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 23:55:12 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Iau, 2004-07-29 at 00:17, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > What is your concern with stopping DMA? > - Not smashing the recovery routine. > - Getting a corrupted core dump because of on-going DMA? Completely random happenings occurring when they are trivial to avoid. Given all the worries about SHA signed in kernel standalone objects I find it farcical that the same people don't even care about ensuring something isnt DMAing over their dump partition description. Alan