From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com (e32.co.us.ibm.com [32.97.110.150]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "e32.co.us.ibm.com", Issuer "Equifax" (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73868DDE08 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:36:44 +1100 (EST) Received: from d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.106]) by e32.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lALLZcAm026503 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:35:38 -0500 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (d03av01.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.167]) by d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.7) with ESMTP id lALMafiT106506 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:36:41 -0700 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id lALMaedY029724 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:36:41 -0700 Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:36:40 -0600 To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: [PATCH/RFC 0/6]: phyp dump: hypervisor-assisted dump Message-ID: <20071121223639.GB4374@austin.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas) Cc: mahuja@us.ibm.com, lkessler@us.ibm.com, strosake@us.ibm.com, mahuja@austin.ibm.com List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , The following series of patches implement a basic framework for hypervisor-assisted dump. The very first patch provides documentation explaining what this is :-). Yes, its supposed to be an improvement over kdump. The patches mostly sort-of work; a list of open issues is inculded in the documentation. It also appears that the not-yet-released firmware versions this was tested on are still, ahem, incomplete; this work is also pending. -- Linas & Manish