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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] panic: Disable crash_kexec_post_notifiers if kdump
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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