Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Mon, 13 Jul 2015 20:19:45 -0500 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] panic: Disable crash_kexec_post_notifiers if kdump is not available |
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dwalker@fifo99.com writes:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 08:41:28AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> writes: >> >> > You can call panic notifiers and kmsg dumpers before kdump by >> > specifying "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" as a boot parameter. >> > However, it doesn't make sense if kdump is not available. In that >> > case, disable "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" boot parameter so that >> > you can't change the value of the parameter. >> >> Nacked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> > > I think it would make sense if he just replaced "kdump" with "kexec".
It would be less insane, however it still makes no sense as without kexec on panic support crash_kexec is a noop. So the value of the seeting makes no difference.
Eric
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