Re: [PATCH] kdump: x86_64 add crashdump trigger points

[Andi Kleen]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 06:05:11PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> 
> 
> o Start booting into the capture kernel after an Oops if system is in a
>   unrecoverable state. System will boot into the capture kernel, if one is
>   pre-loaded by the user, and capture the kernel core dump.
> 
> o One of the following conditions should be true to trigger the booting of
>   capture kernel.
> 	- panic_on_oops is set.
> 	- pid of current thread is 0
> 	- pid of current thread is 1
> 	- Oops happened inside interrupt context.  

I would rather put it into die(). Then the patch will be much smaller
too.

-Andi
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