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

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:05:06 +0000 "Mingarelli, Thomas" <Thomas.Mingarelli@xxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> -----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. :(
> > 
>
> 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.
> 

(top-posting repaired.  Please don't top-post!)

I haven't seen any patch which alters hpwdt_pretimeout() and there is
no such patch in linux-next.  Perhaps it got lost?

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