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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch 0/7] Implement crashkernel=auto
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:51:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1ljlxsiox.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A7A506B.2060008@redhat.com> (Amerigo Wang's message of "Thu\, 06 Aug 2009 11\:39\:23 +0800")

Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> writes:

>> No the crashdump mechanism is useless because user space is already
>> broken and unusable.
>
> Again, why broken?

To get a stock stat drive by hand I had to list about 5 kernel modules
in the right magic order in /etc/kdump.conf

Neither mount by label or mount by uuid when specified in /etc/kdump.conf
I had to hack mkdumprd to get an initrd that even finds the proper disk
to mount.

Short version it takes a huge amount of expertise to get what ships with
fedora to pass the trivial alt-sysrq-c test.  It would probably be about
as easy to write you own custom initrd by hand.

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-06  3:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-05 11:19 [Patch 0/7] Implement crashkernel=auto Amerigo Wang
2009-08-05 11:19 ` [Patch 1/7] x86: add CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE Amerigo Wang
2009-08-05 13:41   ` Neil Horman
2009-08-05 14:45   ` Andi Kleen
2009-08-05 20:07     ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-06  1:55     ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-06  7:15       ` Andi Kleen
2009-08-06  7:44         ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-06  7:56         ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-05 11:19 ` [Patch 2/7] x86: implement crashkernel=auto Amerigo Wang
2009-08-05 13:43   ` Neil Horman
2009-08-06  1:45     ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-05 22:51   ` Yu, Fenghua
2009-08-06  1:56     ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-05 11:19 ` [Patch 3/7] ia64: add CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE Amerigo Wang
2009-08-05 13:49   ` Neil Horman
2009-08-05 11:19 ` [Patch 4/7] ia64: implement crashkernel=auto Amerigo Wang
2009-08-05 13:46   ` Neil Horman
2009-08-05 11:19 ` [Patch 5/7] powerpc: add CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE Amerigo Wang
2009-08-05 13:49   ` Neil Horman
2009-08-05 11:20 ` [Patch 6/7] powerpc: implement crashkernel=auto Amerigo Wang
2009-08-05 13:50   ` Neil Horman
2009-08-05 11:20 ` [Patch 7/7] doc: update the kdump document Amerigo Wang
2009-08-05 13:33 ` [Patch 0/7] Implement crashkernel=auto Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-05 14:04   ` Neil Horman
2009-08-05 22:57     ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-06  2:05       ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-06  2:47         ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-06  3:39           ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-06  3:51             ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2009-08-06  5:57               ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-06  6:14                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-06  6:37                   ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-06  8:35                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-06  8:47                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-06  9:04                         ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-07 19:13                         ` Bernhard Walle
2009-08-06  9:11                       ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-07 19:50                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-07 21:03                           ` Andi Kleen
2009-08-07 21:26                             ` Bernhard Walle
2009-08-07 22:06                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-07 21:31                           ` Bernhard Walle
2009-08-07 22:16                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-10  3:11                           ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-06  1:39   ` Amerigo Wang

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