From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]) by casper.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.76 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1QPfmD-0006KM-Kq for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 18:59:23 +0000 Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 20:58:38 +0200 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [RFC Patch 5/6] slimdump: Capture slimdump for fatal MCE generated crashes Message-ID: <20110526185838.GG4065@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20110526170722.GB23266@in.ibm.com> <20110526172305.GA18295@in.ibm.com> <20110526174447.GC29496@redhat.com> <20110526180931.GF4065@one.firstfloor.org> <20110526182618.GD29496@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110526182618.GD29496@redhat.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: kexec-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: Vivek Goyal Cc: "Luck, Tony" , kexec@lists.infradead.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andi Kleen , anderson@redhat.com, "Eric W. Biederman" , "K.Prasad" > If we are just extracting and saving MCE registers from vmcore, then > reboot time does not increase. It increases only if user decides to > extract and save extra data from vmcore. Hmm I was thinking of user space usually saving the dump first before analyzing it. But yes it could probably do some minimal analysis first. I guess most user spaces just won't change and will just continue to DTWT though. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec