Hi, Following set of patches go one step ahead in restoring the broken kdump functionality in -mm tree on x86. Most of the kdump functionality has now moved to kexec user space (kexec-tools).
This patch set performs following. kexec-tool-1.101 (http://www.xmission.com/~ebiederm/files/kexec/kexec-tools-1.101.tar.gz) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - Create a backup region and copy the first 640K of memory to backup region over a crash. - Generate Elf headers representing crashed memory and store in reserved region. Also appends the memmap= and elfcorehdr= parameters to command line internally to be passed to capture kernel. 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 -------------- - Export address of start of crash notes section (crash_notes) to user space through sysfs I look forward for comments and suggestions. I have done basic testing on uni and 4way (SMT) systems. 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 does not boot if booted with kexec enabled and [EMAIL PROTECTED] is passed as command line parameter. Following patch needs to be applied to rectify the problem. http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/2/24/51 Thanks Vivek - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
