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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2][concept RFC] x86: BIOS-save kernel log to disk upon panic
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:26:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110127052639.GA16289@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D40F81E.1030009-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 08:44:14PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 01/26/2011 06:13 PM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
>>>
>>> - Use kexec/kdump. I wonder though, can kexec work on early panics? The
>>> kind where the disk itself might not yet be initialized?
>>
>> As of today kexec/kdump does not work with early panics as kdump kernel
>> needs to be loaded in reserved memory and that action happens once the
>> first kernel has booted.
>>
>> There is so much to it that I really don't think that modifying bootloaders to
>> do all that might not trivial and more importantly I think it probably is not
>> worth the effort.
>>
>
> It's really not all that hard, actually.
>
Nice, I'll try prototyping this using syslinux and kexec: this seems the
safest path so far. Further details are in my first reply to Vivek.
> -hpa
thanks,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2][concept RFC] x86: BIOS-save kernel log to disk upon panic
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:26:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110127052639.GA16289@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D40F81E.1030009@zytor.com>
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 08:44:14PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 01/26/2011 06:13 PM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
>>>
>>> - Use kexec/kdump. I wonder though, can kexec work on early panics? The
>>> kind where the disk itself might not yet be initialized?
>>
>> As of today kexec/kdump does not work with early panics as kdump kernel
>> needs to be loaded in reserved memory and that action happens once the
>> first kernel has booted.
>>
>> There is so much to it that I really don't think that modifying bootloaders to
>> do all that might not trivial and more importantly I think it probably is not
>> worth the effort.
>>
>
> It's really not all that hard, actually.
>
Nice, I'll try prototyping this using syslinux and kexec: this seems the
safest path so far. Further details are in my first reply to Vivek.
> -hpa
thanks,
--
Darwish
http://darwish.07.googlepages.com
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Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-25 13:47 [PATCH 0/2][concept RFC] x86: BIOS-save kernel log to disk upon panic Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-01-25 13:51 ` [PATCH -next 1/2][RFC] x86: Saveoops: Switch to real-mode and call BIOS Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-01-25 17:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-01-25 13:53 ` [PATCH -next 2/2][RFC] x86: Saveoops: Reserve low memory and register code Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-01-25 17:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-01-26 9:04 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-01-25 14:09 ` [PATCH 0/2][concept RFC] x86: BIOS-save kernel log to disk upon panic Ingo Molnar
2011-01-25 15:08 ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-25 17:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-01-26 11:44 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-02-03 14:36 ` Pavel Machek
2011-02-03 15:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-02-03 17:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-02-03 21:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-01-25 15:36 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-01-25 16:02 ` James Bottomley
2011-01-25 17:05 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-01-25 17:20 ` James Bottomley
2011-01-25 22:10 ` Mark Lord
2011-01-25 22:16 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-01-25 22:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-01-25 22:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-01-26 0:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-01-31 2:59 ` Rusty Russell
2011-01-31 10:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-01-25 17:32 ` Tony Luck
2011-01-25 17:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-01-25 19:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-01-25 14:49 ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-28 7:59 ` Jan Ceuleers
2011-01-25 20:25 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <AANLkTinU0KYiCd4p=z+=ojbkeEoT2G+CAYvdRU02KJEn-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2011-01-26 12:49 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-01-26 12:49 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-01-26 12:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-01-26 12:58 ` Ingo Molnar
[not found] ` <20110126125813.GA26952-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org>
2011-01-26 13:34 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-01-26 13:34 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-01-26 14:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-01-26 14:00 ` Ingo Molnar
[not found] ` <20110126140030.GB30064-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org>
2011-01-27 4:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-01-27 4:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <4D40F5FD.6090507-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2011-01-27 11:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-01-27 11:41 ` Ingo Molnar
[not found] ` <20110127114113.GB20279-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org>
2011-01-27 15:47 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-01-27 15:47 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <m1aaimxs9h.fsf-+imSwln9KH6u2/kzUuoCbdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2011-01-27 16:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-01-27 16:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-01-26 23:07 ` Luck, Tony
2011-01-26 23:07 ` Luck, Tony
2011-01-26 23:07 ` [PATCH 0/2][concept RFC] x86: BIOS-save kernel log to disk upon Luck, Tony
2011-01-26 23:07 ` [PATCH 0/2][concept RFC] x86: BIOS-save kernel log to disk upon panic Luck, Tony
[not found] ` <987664A83D2D224EAE907B061CE93D53019438EABF-osO9UTpF0URqS6EAlXoojrfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2011-01-26 23:16 ` Dave Jones
2011-01-26 23:16 ` Dave Jones
[not found] ` <20110126231620.GA14807-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2011-01-26 23:21 ` Luck, Tony
2011-01-26 23:21 ` Luck, Tony
[not found] ` <20110126233033.GB14807@redhat.com>
[not found] ` <987664A83D2D224EAE907B061CE93D53019438EBB6@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com>
[not found] ` <4D40F7F1.3020509@zytor.com>
[not found] ` <20110127120039.GD20279@elte.hu>
2011-01-27 18:35 ` Luck, Tony
2011-01-27 18:35 ` [PATCH 0/2][concept RFC] x86: BIOS-save kernel log to disk upon Luck, Tony
2011-01-27 18:35 ` [PATCH 0/2][concept RFC] x86: BIOS-save kernel log to disk upon panic Luck, Tony
[not found] ` <4D4197CB.9070201@zytor.com>
[not found] ` <20110127162429.GB26437@elte.hu>
2011-01-27 18:56 ` Luck, Tony
2011-01-27 18:56 ` [PATCH 0/2][concept RFC] x86: BIOS-save kernel log to disk upon Luck, Tony
2011-01-27 18:56 ` [PATCH 0/2][concept RFC] x86: BIOS-save kernel log to disk upon panic Luck, Tony
2011-01-27 1:09 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-01-27 1:09 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
[not found] ` <20110127021338.GA20334@redhat.com>
[not found] ` <20110127021338.GA20334-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2011-01-27 3:33 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-01-27 3:33 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-01-27 4:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-01-27 4:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <4D40F81E.1030009-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2011-01-27 5:26 ` Ahmed S. Darwish [this message]
2011-01-27 5:26 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-01-27 7:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-01-27 7:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-02 11:13 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-02-02 11:13 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-02-02 11:13 ` [PATCH 0/2][concept RFC] x86: BIOS-save kernel log to disk Ahmed S. Darwish
2011-02-02 11:13 ` [PATCH 0/2][concept RFC] x86: BIOS-save kernel log to disk upon panic Ahmed S. Darwish
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