Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 May 2011 19:32:57 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [RFC Patch 5/6] slimdump: Capture slimdump for fatal MCE generated crashes |
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On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:53:05PM +0530, K.Prasad wrote: > > slimdump: Capture slimdump for fatal MCE generated crashes > > System crashes resulting from fatal hardware errors (such as MCE) don't need > all the contents from crashing-kernel's memory. Generate a new 'slimdump' that > retains only essential information while discarding the old memory.
While this is a good idea, note there may be still poisoned lines in memory that haven't resulted in a machine check yet, but could still be fatal when read after a full crash dump for some other reason.
So you still need
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fe61906edce9e70d02481a77a617ba1397573dce and http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6.git;a=commit;h=cb58f049ae6709ddbab71be199390dc6852018cd
in addition.
-Andi
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