Re: [PATCH 0/5] kdump: extract log buffer and registers fromvmcore on NMI button pressing

From: AmÃrico Wang
Date: Fri Jun 04 2010 - 05:45:50 EST


On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 05:13:47PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> > NMI would be only needed if the crash kernel is completely
>> > hosed too.
>>
>> That's the case.
>
>You're saying it booted but is hosed after boot?
>
>That seems like a very obscure case. Is that really common?
>

Actually, I met two of this kind of cases recently.

One was stucked in early_idt_hander() during booting the second kernel,
the other one is even worse, I even can't find where it hangs.
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