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DateThu, 5 Jan 2006 23:47:18 -0800
From"Randy.Dunlap" <>
SubjectRe: oops pauser.
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:06:12 +0100 (MET) Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> >> After an oops, we can't really rely on anything. What if the
> >> oops came from the console layer, or a framebuffer driver?
> 
> How about this?:
> 
> Put an "emergency kernel" into a memory location that is being protected in 
> some way (i.e. writing there even from kernel space generates an oops). 
> Upon oops, it gets unlocked and we do some sort of kexec() to it.
> Of course, this probably requires that the unlocking must not be done 
> with help of the standard page mappings.

This is what kexec + kdump is.

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~Randy
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