On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:28:35AM +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote: [..] > > > What you as kdump framework maintainer would have to accept with this > > > solution is that it is allowed now to start kdump directly via purgatory > > > without using code from the old kernel (e.g. crash_kexec). This has as > > > implication that all things that the old kernel has to initialize for > > > kdump has to be done before the system crashes. Currently this is only > > > the initialization of vmcoreinfo. > > > > when would you save vmcoreinfo? I guess I shall have to look at the > > patches. > > patch #4: We have to save vmcoreinfo at startup time of the production > kernel. > > Perhaps it would be best to send you a new patch series with our latest > proposal. This patch 4 looks reasonable. So you will prepare notes after boot and refresh it after adding CRASHTIME if crash_kexec() is executed. Vivek
