Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:32:52 +0200 | From | Vitaly Mayatskikh <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] kdump: extract log buffer and registers from vmcore on NMI button pressing |
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At Thu, 3 Jun 2010 17:13:47 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > NMI would be only needed if the crash kernel is completely > > > hosed too. > > > > That's the case. > > You're saying it booted but is hosed after boot? > > That seems like a very obscure case. Is that really common?
As usual: for engineers, who have to deal with it - yes, it is common.
> > True. But as a last hope, when nothing else helps, it still may be > > worth trying :) > > It will simply not work.
Why? -- wbr, Vitaly
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