From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, suparna@in.ibm.com, fastboot@osdl.org,
mbligh@aracnet.com, jbarnes@engr.sgi.com,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Fastboot] Re: Announce: dumpfs v0.01 - common RAS output API
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 22:20:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1091136012.1455.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040729111728.5d2bb5c8.akpm@osdl.org>
On Iau, 2004-07-29 at 19:17, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Of course, there's an assumption here that the dead kernel doesn't scribble
> on pages which were never available to its page allocator. If DMA somehow
> goes off and scribbles on the dump kernel we lose.
If the new kernel image starts with an SHA hash check including the
SHA hash check code that can be pretty robust as a sanity check.
> See above. We assume that network RX DMA won't be scribbling in the 16MB
> which was pre-reserved. That's reasonable. We _have_ to assume that.
Ok
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-29 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-22 16:19 Announce: dumpfs v0.01 - common RAS output API Keith Owens
2004-07-26 6:57 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-28 1:53 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-28 10:54 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2004-07-28 10:46 ` [Fastboot] " Alan Cox
2004-07-28 14:38 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-07-28 14:06 ` Alan Cox
2004-07-28 15:21 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-07-28 15:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-28 17:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-28 16:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-28 15:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-28 15:12 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-28 15:23 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-07-28 15:53 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-28 16:03 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-28 18:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-28 18:06 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-28 19:42 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-07-28 19:56 ` [Fastboot] " Alan Cox
2004-07-28 19:44 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-28 23:11 ` [Fastboot] " Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-28 22:53 ` Alan Cox
2004-07-29 1:12 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-29 14:00 ` Alan Cox
2004-07-29 15:47 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-28 18:21 ` Alan Cox
2004-07-28 19:23 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-07-28 20:28 ` [Fastboot] " Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-28 20:33 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-28 19:59 ` Alan Cox
2004-07-28 22:42 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-28 22:44 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-28 23:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-28 22:55 ` Alan Cox
2004-07-29 0:22 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-29 13:57 ` Alan Cox
2004-07-29 18:17 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-29 21:20 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-07-29 22:30 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2004-07-30 0:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-29 23:25 ` Alan Cox
2004-07-30 4:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-30 12:38 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2004-07-31 13:52 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-07-30 15:24 ` Olivier Galibert
2004-07-29 1:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-29 14:12 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-07-28 23:44 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-29 0:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-29 1:09 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-29 1:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-29 14:18 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-07-29 16:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-29 16:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-29 14:08 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-07-29 15:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-29 16:13 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-07-29 17:12 ` Matthias Urlichs
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-07-30 15:02 Manfred Spraul
2004-07-30 14:42 ` Alan Cox
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