Re: [Fastboot] Re: Announce: dumpfs v0.01 - common RAS output API

Alan Cox
2004-07-28T23:58:14Z

On Iau, 2004-07-29 at 00:17, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> What is your concern with stopping DMA?
> - Not smashing the recovery routine.
> - Getting a corrupted core dump because of on-going DMA?

Completely random happenings occurring when they are trivial to avoid.
Given all the worries about SHA signed in kernel standalone objects I
find it farcical that the same people don't even care about ensuring
something isnt DMAing over their dump partition description.

Alan