Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 4 Oct 2011 10:04:37 -0400 | | From | Vivek Goyal <> | | Subject | Re: [Patch 1/4][kernel][slimdump] Add new elf-note of type NT_NOCOREDUMP to capture slimdump |
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On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 01:02:03PM +0530, K.Prasad wrote: > There are certain types of crashes induced by faulty hardware in which > capturing crashing kernel's memory (through kdump) makes no sense (or sometimes > dangerous). > > A case in point, is unrecoverable memory errors (resulting in fatal machine > check exceptions) in which reading from the faulty memory location from the > kexec'ed kernel will cause double fault and system reset (leaving no > information for the user).
Prasad,
I am just trying to remember what was wrong with Andi's approach of disable MCE while copying the dump?
Thanks Vivek
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