From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:00:12 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch 0/2] kdump: Initialize vmcoreinfo note at startup Message-Id: <20110920160012.53b941a7.akpm@google.com> In-Reply-To: <20110920143400.776127689@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20110920143400.776127689@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Archive: List-Post: To: Michael Holzheu Cc: vgoyal@redhat.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton List-ID: On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:34:00 +0200 Michael Holzheu wrote: > Hello Andrew, > > Another common code patch that we would like to have upstream is the vmcoreinfo > note initialization at Linux startup time. We need that for our traditional > stand-alone and hypervisor dump tools. > > [1] kdump: Initialize vmcoreinfo note at startup > [2] s390: Export vmcoreinfo note > > I already have discussed this with Vivek and he has acked the common code > patch [1]. > > Do you agree that Martin sends these patches together with the kdump page > table patches (see https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/9/15/55) in the next merge > window? Sounds good to me, thanks.