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* kexec on SMP mips64?
@ 2008-01-31 18:25 Chris Friesen
  2008-02-01  9:32 ` Ralf Baechle
  2008-02-01 12:21 ` Nicolas Schichan
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Chris Friesen @ 2008-01-31 18:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-mips


Hi all,

We're starting work on an embedded highly-available product using dual 
Octeon cpus, and I'm looking into the possibility of using kexec/kdump 
as a "flight recorder" to dump fault information to a persistant storage 
location.

I saw the patch adding initial support for kexec, but I was curious 
about the current status.  Is anyone using kexec for mips64 SMP systems? 
  Is it known to be broken?  I'm just trying to get a feel for how much 
work might be involved.

Thanks,

Chris

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* Re: kexec on SMP mips64?
  2008-01-31 18:25 kexec on SMP mips64? Chris Friesen
@ 2008-02-01  9:32 ` Ralf Baechle
  2008-02-01 12:21 ` Nicolas Schichan
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Ralf Baechle @ 2008-02-01  9:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Chris Friesen; +Cc: linux-mips

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:25:10PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:

> We're starting work on an embedded highly-available product using dual 
> Octeon cpus, and I'm looking into the possibility of using kexec/kdump as a 
> "flight recorder" to dump fault information to a persistant storage 
> location.
>
> I saw the patch adding initial support for kexec, but I was curious about 
> the current status.  Is anyone using kexec for mips64 SMP systems?  Is it 
> known to be broken?  I'm just trying to get a feel for how much work might 
> be involved.

I would classify the code as untested and suspect.

  Ralf

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* Re: kexec on SMP mips64?
  2008-01-31 18:25 kexec on SMP mips64? Chris Friesen
  2008-02-01  9:32 ` Ralf Baechle
@ 2008-02-01 12:21 ` Nicolas Schichan
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Nicolas Schichan @ 2008-02-01 12:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Chris Friesen; +Cc: linux-mips

On Thursday 31 January 2008 19:25:10 you wrote:

Hi,

> We're starting work on an embedded highly-available product using dual
> Octeon cpus, and I'm looking into the possibility of using kexec/kdump
> as a "flight recorder" to dump fault information to a persistant storage
> location.
>
> I saw the patch adding initial support for kexec, but I was curious
> about the current status.  Is anyone using kexec for mips64 SMP systems?
>   Is it known to be broken?  I'm just trying to get a feel for how much
> work might be involved.

The code used to work on the 32bit mips board I have access to, but as far as 
I know it has not been tested on 64bit. I have not tested it on SMP, but 
chances are that kexec on mips is broken here too.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Schichan

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