Messages in this thread | | | From | "Luck, Tony" <> | Date | Fri, 8 Jul 2011 15:10:26 -0700 | Subject | RE: pstore dump inside an nmi handler |
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> EFI can't sleep (at least, not as far as the kernel's concerned), so > we're safe there. I think it's fair to assume atomicity here - crash > dumping is a pretty specific situation. Although we may need to think > about whether pstore should be saving reboot and poweroff in that case.
Hitachi engineers were very vocal about wanting the reboot/poweroff logs (so they could deal with customers who accidentally rebooted the wrong machine, and then denied doing so while also logging reports that the victim machine had spontaneously reset).
-Tony
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