Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:24:29 -0400 | From | Vivek Goyal <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/9] kdump: Patch series for s390 support |
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On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:28:35AM +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote:
[..] > > > What you as kdump framework maintainer would have to accept with this > > > solution is that it is allowed now to start kdump directly via purgatory > > > without using code from the old kernel (e.g. crash_kexec). This has as > > > implication that all things that the old kernel has to initialize for > > > kdump has to be done before the system crashes. Currently this is only > > > the initialization of vmcoreinfo. > > > > when would you save vmcoreinfo? I guess I shall have to look at the > > patches. > > patch #4: We have to save vmcoreinfo at startup time of the production > kernel. > > Perhaps it would be best to send you a new patch series with our latest > proposal.
This patch 4 looks reasonable. So you will prepare notes after boot and refresh it after adding CRASHTIME if crash_kexec() is executed.
Vivek
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