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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][BUG] tracer: Fails to work
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 16:29:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160128152957.GU6356@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1504204180.6731.1453992833257.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com>

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 02:53:53PM +0000, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> On x86, many BIOS wipe the memory content even after a warm reset :(
> The most reliable solution I found on x86 is to use kexec() to
> boot into a new kernel, mount the DAX filesystem again and read the
> buffers from there.

kexec() is tricky when the kernel is still prefectly fine, I doubt it'll
work when I've hosed it properly :/

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-28 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-28  8:08 [RFC][BUG] tracer: Fails to work Peter Zijlstra
2016-01-28 13:38 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-01-28 13:57   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-01-28 14:18     ` Steven Rostedt
2016-01-28 14:38     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-01-28 14:47       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-01-28 14:53         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-01-28 15:29           ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2016-01-28 15:55             ` Steven Rostedt

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