I did re-verify this now with the 4.9 mainline and kdump through NMI works fine. There might have been additional patches and there is at least one other commit in upstream, however that one is addressing only x86 arch.
Full version info: v4.9 mainline build v4.9 (69973b830859bc6529a7a0468ba0d80ee5117826) Changing tag flag kernel-fixed-upstream ** Tags added: kernel-fixed-upstream -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1630924 Title: Kdump through NMI SMP and single core not working on Ubuntu16.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1630924/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs