On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 08:43:39AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > - Accessing to memory and dumping it to disks. > > A better solution for this is > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=fe61906edce9e70d02481a77a617ba1397573dce > and > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6.git;a=commit;h=cb58f049ae6709ddbab71be199390dc6852018cd > > I'm not a big friend of sysctls for things like this -- either the behaviour > makes sense and should be default or not. This doesn't add up. AFAICT, you're disabling MCE reporting for crash dumps and the original patch's intention was to control whether kexec should run after a machine check. And I agree with Greg that this shouldn't be configurable but instead on by default - if you get a critical error and you cannot guarantee a stable system anymore, kexec shouldn't start at all. That simple. Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
