> A boot argument might help - so we can force use of pstore in cases where > kdump is failing (or prevent use of pstore in cases where it > seem to be preventing us getting to kdump ... I don't have a preference). > BUT this would only be useful if we had a repeatable > problem so that we could switch to the other mode ... and it seems likely > that the kinds of problems that cause pstore or kdump to fail > would be weird cases that are not very repeatable :-(
I think it is helpful for reproducible problems because reasons of kdump failure vary widely. For example, users may forget to erase vmcores from a dump disk and kdump fails due to lack of space. Also, FC cable or other hardware may be broken. But, The person I have to convince is not you but kexec engineers... > > -Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
