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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] panic: Disable crash_kexec_post_notifiers if kdump
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 20:26:11 +0000
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To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>, Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-metag@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 08:41:28AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> writes:
> 
> > You can call panic notifiers and kmsg dumpers before kdump by
> > specifying "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" as a boot parameter.
> > However, it doesn't make sense if kdump is not available.  In that
> > case, disable "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" boot parameter so that
> > you can't change the value of the parameter.
> 
> Nacked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

I think it would make sense if he just replaced "kdump" with "kexec".

Daniel