Hello Andrew, Another common code patch that we would like to have upstream is the vmcoreinfo note initialization at Linux startup time. We need that for our traditional stand-alone and hypervisor dump tools. [1] kdump: Initialize vmcoreinfo note at startup [2] s390: Export vmcoreinfo note I already have discussed this with Vivek and he has acked the common code patch [1]. Do you agree that Martin sends these patches together with the kdump page table patches (see https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/9/15/55) in the next merge window? Michael