On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 01:02:03PM +0530, K.Prasad wrote: > There are certain types of crashes induced by faulty hardware in which > capturing crashing kernel's memory (through kdump) makes no sense (or sometimes > dangerous). > > A case in point, is unrecoverable memory errors (resulting in fatal machine > check exceptions) in which reading from the faulty memory location from the > kexec'ed kernel will cause double fault and system reset (leaving no > information for the user). Prasad, I am just trying to remember what was wrong with Andi's approach of disable MCE while copying the dump? Thanks Vivek -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility
