From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com>
Cc: indranil@chelsio.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
nirranjan@chelsio.com, kexec@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stephen@networkplumber.org,
ganeshgr@chelsio.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, davem@davemloft.net,
ebiederm@xmission.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 1/3] vmcore: add API to collect hardware dump in second kernel
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 10:24:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180419082456.GA8617@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e69b49f1406d2dcd9cd68e4300939e96cd745559.1523950324.git.rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com>
On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 01:14:17PM +0530, Rahul Lakkireddy wrote:
> +config PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
> + bool "Device Hardware/Firmware Log Collection"
> + depends on PROC_VMCORE
> + default y
Only things that require the machine to keep working should be 'default
y', please remove this, it's an option.
> + help
> + Device drivers can collect the device specific snapshot of
> + their hardware or firmware before they are initialized in
> + crash recovery kernel. If you say Y here, the device dumps
> + will be added as ELF notes to /proc/vmcore
Which exact "device drivers" are you referring to here?
thanks,
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-17 7:44 [PATCH net-next v4 0/3] kernel: add support to collect hardware logs in crash recovery kernel Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-04-17 7:44 ` [PATCH net-next v4 1/3] vmcore: add API to collect hardware dump in second kernel Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-04-19 8:24 ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-04-19 14:56 ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-04-17 7:44 ` [PATCH net-next v4 2/3] vmcore: append device dumps to vmcore as elf notes Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-04-17 7:44 ` [PATCH net-next v4 3/3] cxgb4: collect hardware dump in second kernel Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-04-18 6:15 ` [PATCH net-next v4 0/3] kernel: add support to collect hardware logs in crash recovery kernel Dave Young
2018-04-18 12:31 ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-04-18 14:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-04-18 15:07 ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-04-19 1:40 ` Dave Young
2018-04-19 14:27 ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-04-19 14:53 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-04-20 13:06 ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-04-20 13:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-04-20 14:51 ` Rahul Lakkireddy
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