Re: [PATCH]Diskdump - yet another crash dump function

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Jun 03 2004 - 08:36:30 EST


Hi!

> Although I know about LKCD and netdump, I'm developing yet another crash
> dump, which is a polling-based disk dump as netdump do. Because it
> disables any interrupts during doing dump, it can avoid lots of problems
> LKCD has.
>
> Main Feature
> - Reliability
> Diskdump disables interrupts, stops other cpus and writes to the
> disk with polling mode. Therefore, unnecessary functions(like
> interrupt handler) don't disturb dumping.

Hmm... with this, better design of swsusp mifht be feasible.

Pavel
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64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms

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