Re: [patch] add kdump_after_notifier

[Bernhard Walle]

* Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> [2007-07-26 17:54]:
> 
> That's true. Its not mainline. We had similar discussion in the past
> also. I think we should allow only audited code to be run after panic().
> Leaving it open to modules or unaudited code makes this solution
> something like LKCD where whole lot of code used to run after the crash,
> hence was unreliable.
> 
> If KDB goes mainline, then I think it is not a bad idea to call debugger
> first (if it is enabled) and then one can trigger crash dump from inside
> the debugger.

Well, after thinking again about this, I think the best solution would
to call kdump from KDB with a command as it was done by LKCD. The new
sysctl is too specific ...


Thanks,
   Bernhard
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