RE: [PATCH] [WATCHDOG] [hpwdt] Set the mapped BIOS address space asexecutable

[Mingarelli, Thomas]

We have also verified that returning NOTIFY_OK from the hpwdt_pretimeout routine makes the KDUMP feature work correctly.

Bernhard pointed that out a week or so ago and we have since verified it.


Thanks,

Tom


-----Original Message-----
From: Bernhard Walle [mailto:bwalle@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 4:32 PM
To: Andrew Morton
Cc: Mingarelli, Thomas; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; wim@xxxxxxxxx; stable@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [WATCHDOG] [hpwdt] Set the mapped BIOS address space as executable

* Andrew Morton [2008-11-18 14:30]:
>
> This is also needed in 2.6.27.x, yes?

Right. But I was waiting for feedback from the author since I'm really
not familiar with low level memory management and that driver. :(


Regards,
Bernhard
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