Re: [PATCH 0/7] Patches for kdump vs. INIT

Jay Lan
2009-06-22T06:51:17Z

Kdump with INIT on IPF worked on SGI's IA64 servers when i left SGI last
December.
Is this problem something new to you after .27?

SGI folks should test this patchset to ensure no surprise is introduced to
their servers.

Cheers,
jay

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hidetoshi Seto" <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Haren Myneni" <hbabu@us.ibm.com>; <kexec@lists.infradead.org>; "Vivek
Goyal" <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 11:44 PM
Subject: [PATCH 0/7] Patches for kdump vs. INIT

> Hi Tony-san, and kdump folks,
>
> I got some trouble on kdump on IPF with INIT, and my investigation
> proves there are some bugs and races in startup of kdump.
> Here are fixes based on .30, for issues I found.
>
> Since it must be serious problem for (likely big) IPF servers if we
> could fail to retrieve crashdump via kdump, so I believe these patches
> should be applied asap.
>
>
> Thanks,
> H.Seto
>
> ===
>
> Hidetoshi Seto (7):
> ia64, kdump: Mask MCA/INIT on freezing cpus
> ia64, kexec: Make INIT safe while kdump/kexec
> ia64, kexec: Unregister MCA handler before kexec
> ia64, kdump: Don't offline APs
> ia64, kdump: Mask INIT first in panic-kdump path
> ia64, kdump: Try INIT regardless of kdump_on_init
> ia64, kdump: Short path to freeze CPUs
>
> arch/ia64/kernel/crash.c | 85
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
> arch/ia64/kernel/machine_kexec.c | 17 ++++++++
> arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c | 15 ++++++-
> arch/ia64/kernel/mca_asm.S | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++
> 4 files changed, 136 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>
>
>
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