From: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
To: Mike Strosaker <strosake@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, lkessler@us.ibm.com, mahuja@us.ibm.com,
Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>,
linasvepstas@gmail.com, strosake@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] pseries: phyp dump: Docmentation
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:26:41 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080111012641.GX14201@localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4786923E.9090902@austin.ibm.com>
Mike Strosaker wrote:
>
> At the risk of repeating what others have already said, the PHYP-assistance
> method provides some advantages that the kexec method cannot:
> - Availability of the system for production use before the dump data is
> collected. As was mentioned before, some production systems may choose not
> to operate with the limited memory initially available after the reboot,
> but it sure is nice to provide the option.
I'm more concerned that this design encourages the user to resume a
workload *which is almost certainly known to result in a system crash*
before collection of crash data is complete. Maybe the gamble will
pay off most of the time, but I wouldn't want to be working support
when it doesn't.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-11 1:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-07 23:45 [PATCH 0/8] pseries: phyp dump: hypervisor-assisted dump Manish Ahuja
2008-01-08 0:13 ` [PATCH 1/8] pseries: phyp dump: Docmentation Manish Ahuja
2008-01-09 4:29 ` Nathan Lynch
2008-01-09 4:58 ` Michael Ellerman
2008-01-09 15:31 ` Linas Vepstas
2008-01-09 18:44 ` Nathan Lynch
2008-01-09 19:28 ` Manish Ahuja
2008-01-09 22:59 ` Michael Ellerman
2008-01-09 23:18 ` Manish Ahuja
2008-01-10 2:47 ` Linas Vepstas
2008-01-10 3:55 ` Michael Ellerman
2008-01-10 2:33 ` Linas Vepstas
2008-01-10 3:17 ` Olof Johansson
2008-01-10 4:12 ` Linas Vepstas
2008-01-10 4:52 ` Michael Ellerman
2008-01-10 16:21 ` Olof Johansson
2008-01-10 16:34 ` Linas Vepstas
2008-01-10 21:46 ` Mike Strosaker
2008-01-11 1:26 ` Nathan Lynch [this message]
2008-01-11 16:57 ` Linas Vepstas
2008-01-14 5:24 ` Olof Johansson
2008-01-14 15:21 ` Linas Vepstas
2008-01-08 0:16 ` [PATCH 2/8] pseries: phyp dump: config file Manish Ahuja
2008-01-08 3:18 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-01-08 0:21 ` [PATCH 4/8] pseries: phyp dump: use sysfs to release reserved mem Manish Ahuja
2008-01-08 3:45 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-01-08 18:34 ` Linas Vepstas
2008-01-08 0:25 ` [PATCH 3/8] pseries: phyp dump: reserve-release proof-of-concept Manish Ahuja
2008-01-08 3:16 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-01-16 4:21 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-01-08 0:28 ` [PATCH 5/8] pseries: phyp dump: register dump area Manish Ahuja
2008-01-08 3:59 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-01-08 0:35 ` [PATCH 6/8] pseries: phyp dump: debugging print routines Manish Ahuja
2008-01-08 0:49 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-01-08 4:03 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-01-08 0:37 ` [PATCH 7/8] pseries: phyp dump: Unregister and print dump areas Manish Ahuja
2008-01-08 4:25 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-01-08 22:56 ` Manish Ahuja
2008-01-08 0:39 ` [PATCH 8/8] pseries: phyp dump: Tracking memory range freed Manish Ahuja
2008-02-12 6:31 ` [PATCH 0/8] pseries: phyp dump: hypervisor-assisted dump Manish Ahuja
2008-02-12 6:53 ` [PATCH 1/8] pseries: phyp dump: Docmentation Manish Ahuja
2008-02-12 7:08 ` [PATCH 2/8] pseries: phyp dump: reserve-release proof-of-concept Manish Ahuja
2008-02-12 8:48 ` Michael Ellerman
2008-02-12 16:38 ` Manish Ahuja
2008-02-14 3:46 ` Tony Breeds
2008-02-14 23:12 ` Olof Johansson
2008-02-15 7:16 ` Manish Ahuja
2008-02-12 7:11 ` [PATCH 3/8] pseries: phyp dump: use sysfs to release reserved mem Manish Ahuja
2008-02-12 10:08 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-02-12 16:40 ` Manish Ahuja
2008-02-15 1:05 ` Tony Breeds
2008-02-15 7:17 ` Manish Ahuja
2008-02-15 22:32 ` Tony Breeds
2008-02-15 17:30 ` Linas Vepstas
2008-02-12 7:14 ` [PATCH 4/8] pseries: phyp dump: register dump area Manish Ahuja
2008-02-12 10:11 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-02-12 16:31 ` Manish Ahuja
2008-02-12 7:16 ` [PATCH 5/8] pseries: phyp dump: debugging print routines Manish Ahuja
2008-02-12 7:18 ` [PATCH 6/8] pseries: phyp dump: Invalidate and print dump areas Manish Ahuja
2008-02-12 10:18 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-02-12 16:32 ` Manish Ahuja
2008-02-13 21:43 ` Manish Ahuja
2008-02-12 7:20 ` [PATCH 7/8] pseries: phyp dump: Tracking memory range freed Manish Ahuja
2008-02-12 7:21 ` [PATCH 8/8] pseries: phyp dump: config file Manish Ahuja
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-01-22 19:12 [PATCH 0/8] pseries: phyp dump: hypervisor-assisted dump Manish Ahuja
2008-01-22 19:26 ` [PATCH 1/8] pseries: phyp dump: Docmentation Manish Ahuja
2008-02-18 4:53 [PATCH 0/8] pseries: phyp dump: hypervisor-assisted dump Manish Ahuja
2008-02-22 0:53 ` Michael Ellerman
2008-02-28 23:57 ` Manish Ahuja
2008-02-29 0:22 ` [PATCH 1/8] pseries: phyp dump: Docmentation Manish Ahuja
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