On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 08:58:38PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > If we are just extracting and saving MCE registers from vmcore, then > > reboot time does not increase. It increases only if user decides to > > extract and save extra data from vmcore. > > Hmm I was thinking of user space usually saving the dump first > before analyzing it. But yes it could probably do some minimal > analysis first. In RHEL, now we filter out the dump by default until and unless user decides to no filter the dump with the help of config options. So I think in this case we can just introduce an extra filtering option in "makedumpfile" and ask it to save only MCE registers if it notices that there is NT_MCE type of ELF note in vmcore. I can very well imaging that extracting dmesg along with MCE registers can be useful. If nothing else, it can give us useful information about the system configuration. Zeroing out all the other ELF headers in vmcore takes away the capability to extract log buffers in case of MCE and I think it probably is not the best idea. Thanks Vivek
