* Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at in.ibm.com> [2007-07-26 17:54]: > > That's true. Its not mainline. We had similar discussion in the past > also. I think we should allow only audited code to be run after panic(). > Leaving it open to modules or unaudited code makes this solution > something like LKCD where whole lot of code used to run after the crash, > hence was unreliable. > > If KDB goes mainline, then I think it is not a bad idea to call debugger > first (if it is enabled) and then one can trigger crash dump from inside > the debugger. Well, after thinking again about this, I think the best solution would to call kdump from KDB with a command as it was done by LKCD. The new sysctl is too specific ... Thanks, Bernhard
