From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: hari@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fastboot@osdl.org,
Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>,
mbligh@aracnet.com, litke@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [Fastboot] kexec based crash dumping
Date: 15 Sep 2004 11:33:04 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m14qlzbfov.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040915125041.GA15450@in.ibm.com>
Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com> writes:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> The patches that follow contain the kexec based crash dumping implementation.
> Based on feedback received last time, we have made several changes. Some of
> them are:
>
> - The dumping kernel now boots from a non-default location. This is possible
> due to Eric's patch which allows i386 kernels to boot from a non-default
> location. This change means that we need two different kernels to get this
> setup. The documentation patch has complete details on how to do this.
Cool. I am glad you could get this going this should make things
easier.
> - We can now choose whether or not to dump from panic. The documentation
> patch has details on this as well.
> - The linear view is now called oldmem.
> - Changes as per the code review comments from the previous posting.
>
> The patches correspond to 2.6.9-rc1-mm5.
>
> Kindly review these patches and let me know your thoughts.
I will start with my standard objections about it still being
incompatible with other uses of kexec.
More later when I get a chance. Things seem to slowly be going
in the right direction.
Eric
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-15 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-15 12:50 kexec based crash dumping Hariprasad Nellitheertha
2004-09-15 12:51 ` [PATCH][1/6]Documentation Hariprasad Nellitheertha
2004-09-15 12:53 ` [PATCH][2/6]Memory preserving reboot using kexec Hariprasad Nellitheertha
2004-09-15 12:54 ` [PATCH][3/6]Routines for copying the dump pages Hariprasad Nellitheertha
2004-09-15 12:55 ` [PATCH][4/6]Register snapshotting before kexec boot Hariprasad Nellitheertha
2004-09-15 12:56 ` [PATCH][5/6]ELF format dump file access Hariprasad Nellitheertha
2004-09-15 12:57 ` [PATCH][6/6]Linear/raw " Hariprasad Nellitheertha
2004-09-15 21:28 ` [PATCH][5/6]ELF " Andrew Morton
2004-09-15 21:29 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-15 21:31 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-15 21:27 ` [PATCH][4/6]Register snapshotting before kexec boot Andrew Morton
2004-09-16 8:11 ` [Fastboot] " Dipankar Sarma
2004-09-17 14:53 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2004-09-19 20:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-09-15 21:23 ` [PATCH][3/6]Routines for copying the dump pages Andrew Morton
2004-09-15 21:22 ` [PATCH][2/6]Memory preserving reboot using kexec Andrew Morton
2004-09-19 20:37 ` [Fastboot] " Eric W. Biederman
2004-09-20 13:49 ` Hariprasad Nellitheertha
2004-09-20 19:53 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-09-15 17:33 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
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