From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ia64 kdump: add kdump_on_fatal_mca
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:01:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804091701.17749.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47FAF533.8010707@jp.fujitsu.com>
On Tuesday 08 April 2008 12:54:13 pm Luck, Tony wrote:
> > As an alternative, could kdump_on_fatal_mca be turned on by
> > default in Altix (in the Altix specific boot code)? Then
> > we could set our default without impacting other vendors.
>
> This is a sysctl variable ... are there any cases where we
> set these to different default values for different platforms?
>
> It would seem better for the kernel to set the default value
> to the most useful one, and for system owners that don't want
> the default behaviour to just add an entry to /etc/sysctl.conf
> to set their preference.
>
> I'm not sure how we decide what is the most useful default.
> So far SGI are voting for enabling dumping for MCA, and
> Fujitsu have implicitly voted to disable (as that is what
> Seto-san's patch sets). Any other opinions?
I'd like dumping on MCA to be enabled by default.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-09 23:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-08 4:31 [PATCH 1/2] ia64 kdump: add kdump_on_fatal_mca Hidetoshi Seto
2008-04-08 17:36 ` Jay Lan
2008-04-08 17:51 ` Luck, Tony
2008-04-08 18:19 ` Jay Lan
2008-04-08 18:21 ` Russ Anderson
2008-04-08 18:34 ` Jay Lan
2008-04-08 18:54 ` Luck, Tony
2008-04-09 0:36 ` Hidetoshi Seto
2008-04-09 21:59 ` Luck, Tony
2008-04-09 23:01 ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
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