Re: [ANNOUNCE] Merkey's Kernel Debugger

[Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>]

> In a partitioned system [I work for SGI, so I'm talking about an Altix],
> there is memory sharing among multiple single-system images. And if
> one of those partitions were to panic the other partitions need to
> be informed that they cannot address the panic'd partition's memory.
> (Once that partition is rebooted any such access will cause an MCA
> in the accessor.)

There are already existing shutdown hooks. Aren't they good enough
for that?

I would feel uneasy about having arbitary drivers hook into panic().
While I'm sure your code is great there is unfortunately a lot 
of crappy driver code around.

-Andi