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SubjectRe: [RFC Patch 1/2][slimdump] Append CRASH_REASON to VMCOREINFO elf-note


----- Original Message -----
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:19:31AM -0500, Dave Anderson wrote:
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > Allow various crash paths to append the reason of crash into the
> > > VMCOREINFO elf-note through the field CRASH_REASON. We also make the
> > > fatal machine check exceptions append "PANIC_MCE" as the crash
> > > reason. This string will be recognised by upstream tools like
> > > makedumpfile and crash to generate slimdump.
> >
> > I don't understand -- how could "various paths" append a reason?
> > The patch below seems to return "PANIC_MCE" for every x86 crash.
> > What am I missing?
> >
> > Dave
> >
>
> Yes, presently it can only be "PANIC_MCE" for MCE crashes in x86 (not
> for every crash though).

Why only MCE crashes? If your arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c is
compiled into any x86 kernel, then its arch_add_crash_reason() will
always override the weak version in kernel/kexec.c, right?

Dave



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