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From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>,
	ellerman@au1.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdump: Fix for machine checkstop on DMA fault
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:06:27 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603231706.35508.michael@ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060323053854.GA17693@pb15.lixom.net>

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On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:38, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 08:30:26PM -0800, Haren Myneni wrote:
> > Paul, If you are OK with this fix, please send it upstream.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Haren
> >
> > - Some machines checkstop on dma protection fault for ongoing DMA left
> > in the first kernel. Since, we do not shutdown devices before the kdump
> > boot, let them continue DMA to old kernel space.
>
> How is this solved for regular kexec, doesn't the same problem exist
> there?

The idea for normal kexec is that the kernel should have shut everything down 
properly. It's a bug if there are still DMAs going on. Hopefully.

cheers

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-23  6:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-23  4:30 [PATCH] kdump: Fix for machine checkstop on DMA fault Haren Myneni
2006-03-23  5:38 ` Olof Johansson
2006-03-23  6:06   ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2006-03-23  6:19     ` Olof Johansson
2006-03-23 20:12       ` Olof Johansson
2006-03-23 23:06         ` Haren Myneni
2006-03-23 23:11           ` Olof Johansson
2006-03-27  5:04         ` Michael Ellerman
2006-03-27 14:06           ` Olof Johansson

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