From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266689AbUIORiS (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:38:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267254AbUIORhB (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:37:01 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:1982 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267199AbUIORf5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:35:57 -0400 To: hari@in.ibm.com Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fastboot@osdl.org, Suparna Bhattacharya , mbligh@aracnet.com, litke@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: [Fastboot] kexec based crash dumping References: <20040915125041.GA15450@in.ibm.com> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 15 Sep 2004 11:33:04 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20040915125041.GA15450@in.ibm.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hariprasad Nellitheertha 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