From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264278AbUHTIUk (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 04:20:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267827AbUHTIUj (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 04:20:39 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:40352 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264278AbUHTISz (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 04:18:55 -0400 To: Andrew Morton Cc: hari@in.ibm.com, suparna@in.ibm.com, fastboot@osdl.org, litke@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mbligh@aracnet.com Subject: Re: [Fastboot] Re: [RFC]Kexec based crash dumping References: <20040817120239.GA3916@in.ibm.com> <20040817154436.529ba9f6.akpm@osdl.org> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 20 Aug 2004 02:17:35 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20040817154436.529ba9f6.akpm@osdl.org> 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 Andrew Morton writes: > Hariprasad Nellitheertha wrote: > > > > The patches that follow contain the initial implementation for kexec based > > crash dumping that we are working on. > > It seems to be coming together nicely. Well it is coming. There is a lot of exploratory work still needed to find what it takes to reliably get a kernel working in the hostile environment present after a kernel panic. That really has barely begun and it likely to turn up some unexpected architecture specific issues. Eric