From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "\"M. Edward (Ed) Borasky\"" <znmeb@aracnet.com>,
Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Total system lockup with Alt-SysRQ-L
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 11:35:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011225113554.B37@toy.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112240621370.26289-100000@shell1.aracnet.com> <E16IYZu-0004an-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E16IYZu-0004an-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 05:07:54PM +0000
Hi!
> > option, would be a one-button "sync up all the disks, forbid any more
> > writes, save as much state as possbile (registers, memory) to a swap
> > partition, set a flag for crash dump processing and reboot" capability.
>
> Very hard to do - you can't trust the I/O systems state so the dump code
Actually... swsusp should be usable for most of this... But swsusp will
not work in bad state and I guess that's showtopper.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-25 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-23 17:58 Total system lockup with Alt-SysRQ-L Russell King
2001-12-24 2:34 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-24 8:37 ` Russell King
2001-12-24 11:48 ` Denis Oliver Kropp
2001-12-24 12:26 ` Russell King
2001-12-25 11:33 ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-24 14:27 ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2001-12-24 17:07 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-25 11:35 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2001-12-28 1:00 ` David Woodhouse
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