Re: [RFC][BUG] tracer: Fails to work

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Jan 28 2016 - 10:30:10 EST


On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 02:53:53PM +0000, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> On x86, many BIOS wipe the memory content even after a warm reset :(
> The most reliable solution I found on x86 is to use kexec() to
> boot into a new kernel, mount the DAX filesystem again and read the
> buffers from there.

kexec() is tricky when the kernel is still prefectly fine, I doubt it'll
work when I've hosed it properly :/