On 07/29/2010 08:06 AM, Neil Horman wrote: >> >> Sorry, can we keep the discussions of kexec-on-crash and kexec-in-place >> clearly separated, please? The qla driver issue is supposed to be >> kexec-in-place, and it sounds like you're talking about kexec-on-crash. >> > No, I'm just indicating a difference between the two paths, and I'm doing so > because we used to have simmilar dma problems in the crash path, which we > resolved by not turning of the iommu during shutdown, which is different from > the in-place path. Just trying to give you some thoughts about where to look Fair enough... just wanted to flag this as a problem, because it has already been the source of a lot of confusion. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.