Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Aug 2008 14:20:52 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Merkey's Kernel Debugger |
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> In a partitioned system [I work for SGI, so I'm talking about an Altix], > there is memory sharing among multiple single-system images. And if > one of those partitions were to panic the other partitions need to > be informed that they cannot address the panic'd partition's memory. > (Once that partition is rebooted any such access will cause an MCA > in the accessor.)
There are already existing shutdown hooks. Aren't they good enough for that?
I would feel uneasy about having arbitary drivers hook into panic(). While I'm sure your code is great there is unfortunately a lot of crappy driver code around.
-Andi
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