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From: Xunlei Pang <xpang@redhat.com>
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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 10:33:26 +0800
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On 01/24/2017 at 02:14 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 10:01:53AM -0800, Luck, Tony wrote:
>> will ignore the machine check on the other cpus ... assuming
>> that "cpu_is_offline(smp_processor_id())" does the right thing
>> in the kexec case where this is an "old" cpu that isn't online
>> in the new kernel.
> Nice. And kdump did do the dumping on one CPU, AFAIR. So we should be
> good there.
>

"nr_cpus=N" will consume more memory, using very large N is almost
impossible for kdump to boot with considering the limited crash memory
reserved.

For some large machine, nr_cpus=1 might not be enough, we have to use
nr_cpus=4 or more, it is also helpful for the vmcore parallel dumping :-)

Regards,
Xunlei