Re: [PATCH] kdump: Fix for boot problems on SMP

Andrew Morton
2004-11-19T23:31:32Z

Akinobu Mita <amgta@yacht.ocn.ne.jp> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 18 November 2004 23:08, Hariprasad Nellitheertha wrote:
>
> > There was a buggy (and unnecessary) reserve_bootmem call in the kdump
> > call which was causing hangs during early on some SMP machines. The
> > attached patch removes that.
>
> Thanks! I also had the same problem.

So.. How is the crashdump code working now? I haven't heard from anyone
who is using it and I haven't gotten onto testing it myself.

Do we have any feeling for its success rate on various machines, and on its
ease of use?