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Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 09:44:44 +0900
From: Takao Indoh <indou.takao@soft.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]Diskdump - yet another crash dump function
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To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Hello, 

On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 15:10:07 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:

>> Although I know about LKCD and netdump, I'm developing yet another crash
>> dump, which is a polling-based disk dump as netdump do. Because it
>> disables any interrupts during doing dump, it can avoid lots of problems
>> LKCD has.
>> 
>> Main Feature
>> - Reliability
>>    Diskdump disables interrupts, stops other cpus and writes to the 
>>    disk with polling mode. Therefore, unnecessary functions(like
>>    interrupt handler) don't disturb dumping.
>
>Hmm... with this, better design of swsusp mifht be feasible.

I don't know mechanism of swsusp well.
Do you mean diskdump is useful when saving system memory to the disk?

Regards,
Takao Indoh