Re: source line numbers with x86_64 modules? [Was: Re: [patch] measurements, numbers about CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y impact]

Andreas Dilger
2009-01-11T10:11:35Z

On Jan 10, 2009 16:15 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> In my experience, there are very few kernel versions and hardware for
> which kdump works. I've talked to the people who have to make kdump
> work, and every 12-18 months, with a new set of enterprise kernels
> comes out, they have to go and fix kdump so it works again for the set
> of hardware that they care about, and for the kernel version involved.

I'm sad that netconsole/netdump never made it big. It was fairly useful,
and extending the eth drivers to add the polling mode was trivial to do.
We were using that for a few years, but it got replaced by kdump and it
appears to be less usable IMHO.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.