From: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
To: "Lluís Batlle i Rossell" <viric@viric.name>, kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Getting the kexec on panic
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:34:33 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5049BFA9.4090107@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120906220651.GB1745@cantor.Home>
On 09/07/2012 06:06 AM, Jerry Snitselaar wrote:
> On Thu Sep 06 12, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> while I can load immediately a kernel using kexec, when I set it for panic and
>> crash with sysrq-c, the computer hangs.
>>
>> I'm using the nvidia X driver; can it be that it stops the panic handling from
>> working? I don't understand why it would work with normal kexec though, if it
>> were the case.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Lluís.
>
> Hi Lluis,
>
>
> What kernel are you using? The commit 722bc6b "x86/mm: Fix the size calculation of mapping tables" which started showing up in 3.5-rc1 causes problems for the crash kernel. You might try this patchset[1] from Jacob Shin and see if it resolves the problem for you if you are experiencing your problem on a 3.5-rc1+ kernel.
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/24/474
He has updated the v5 patch set as below:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/29/227
>
> Regards,
> Jerry
>
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-06 9:43 Getting the kexec on panic Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2012-09-06 18:48 ` Daniel Baluta
2012-09-06 22:06 ` Jerry Snitselaar
2012-09-07 9:34 ` Dave Young [this message]
2012-09-07 9:41 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
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