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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Akinobu Mita <amgta@yacht.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: hari@in.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	pbadari@us.ibm.com, varap@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdump: Fix for boot problems on SMP
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:30:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041119153052.21b387ca.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200411200256.36218.amgta@yacht.ocn.ne.jp>

Akinobu Mita <amgta@yacht.ocn.ne.jp> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 18 November 2004 23:08, Hariprasad Nellitheertha wrote:
> 
> > There was a buggy (and unnecessary) reserve_bootmem call in the kdump
> > call which was causing hangs during early on some SMP machines. The
> > attached patch removes that.
> 
> Thanks! I also had the same problem.

So..  How is the crashdump code working now?  I haven't heard from anyone
who is using it and I haven't gotten onto testing it myself.

Do we have any feeling for its success rate on various machines, and on its
ease of use?


  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-19 23:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-18 14:08 [PATCH] kdump: Fix for boot problems on SMP Hariprasad Nellitheertha
2004-11-18 15:34 ` Badari Pulavarty
2004-11-19 17:56 ` Akinobu Mita
2004-11-19 23:30   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-11-19 23:29     ` Badari Pulavarty
2004-11-20  1:05     ` Badari Pulavarty
2004-11-20  3:04       ` Akinobu Mita
2004-11-22 16:03         ` Hariprasad Nellitheertha
2004-11-22 22:34           ` Badari Pulavarty
2004-11-23  0:43           ` Badari Pulavarty
2004-11-23 18:15             ` Hariprasad Nellitheertha
2004-11-24 20:07               ` Badari Pulavarty
2004-11-25 15:13                 ` Hariprasad Nellitheertha
2004-11-25 17:21             ` Akinobu Mita
2004-11-26 11:57               ` Hariprasad Nellitheertha
2004-11-20  3:46     ` Akinobu Mita

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