Re: Progress on system crash traces with LTTng using DAX and pmem

2015-01-25 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
t; Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 2:48:09 PM > Subject: Re: Progress on system crash traces with LTTng using DAX and pmem > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 12:51:25PM +, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > A quick follow up on my progress on using DAX and pmem with > > LTTng. I've be

Re: Progress on system crash traces with LTTng using DAX and pmem

2014-12-13 Thread Matt Fleming
On Thu, 30 Oct, at 03:11:36PM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > Hi Kirill, > > This is a good point, > > There are a few more aspects to consider here: > > - Other architectures appear to have different guarantees, for > instance ARM which, AFAIK, does not reset memory on soft > reboot (well at

Re: Progress on system crash traces with LTTng using DAX and pmem

2014-10-30 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 6:54:58 AM > Subject: Re: Progress on system crash traces with LTTng using DAX and pmem > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 12:51:25PM +, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > FYI, the main reason why my customer wants to go with a > > "trace into

Re: Progress on system crash traces with LTTng using DAX and pmem

2014-10-30 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
t; Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 2:48:09 PM > Subject: Re: Progress on system crash traces with LTTng using DAX and pmem > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 12:51:25PM +, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > A quick follow up on my progress on using DAX and pmem with > > LTTng. I've be

Re: Progress on system crash traces with LTTng using DAX and pmem

2014-10-28 Thread Kirill A. Shutemov
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 12:51:25PM +, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > FYI, the main reason why my customer wants to go with a > "trace into memory that survives soft reboot" approach > rather than to use things like kexec/kdump is that they > care about the amount of time it takes to reboot their >

Re: Progress on system crash traces with LTTng using DAX and pmem

2014-10-27 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 12:51:25PM +, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > A quick follow up on my progress on using DAX and pmem with > LTTng. I've been able to successfully gather a user-space > trace into buffers mmap'd into an ext4 filesystem within > a pmem block device mounted with -o dax to bypass

Progress on system crash traces with LTTng using DAX and pmem

2014-10-25 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
Hi Matthew, Hi Ross, A quick follow up on my progress on using DAX and pmem with LTTng. I've been able to successfully gather a user-space trace into buffers mmap'd into an ext4 filesystem within a pmem block device mounted with -o dax to bypass the page cache. After a soft reboot, I'm able to mou