Re: [Fastboot] kexec based crash dumping

[Eric W. Biederman]

Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi Andrew,
> 
> The patches that follow contain the kexec based crash dumping implementation.
> Based on feedback received last time, we have made several changes. Some of
> them are:
> 
> - The dumping kernel now boots from a non-default location. This is possible
>   due to Eric's patch which allows i386 kernels to boot from a non-default
>   location. This change means that we need two different kernels to get this
>   setup. The documentation patch has complete details on how to do this.

Cool.  I am glad you could get this going this should make things
easier.

> - We can now choose whether or not to dump from panic. The documentation
>   patch has details on this as well.
> - The linear view is now called oldmem.
> - Changes as per the code review comments from the previous posting.
> 
> The patches correspond to 2.6.9-rc1-mm5.
> 
> Kindly review these patches and let me know your thoughts.

I will start with my standard objections about it still being
incompatible with other uses of kexec.

More later when I get a chance.  Things seem to slowly be going
in the right direction.

Eric
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