On 09/07/2012 06:06 AM, Jerry Snitselaar wrote: > On Thu Sep 06 12, Llu?s Batlle i Rossell wrote: >> Hello, >> >> while I can load immediately a kernel using kexec, when I set it for panic and >> crash with sysrq-c, the computer hangs. >> >> I'm using the nvidia X driver; can it be that it stops the panic handling from >> working? I don't understand why it would work with normal kexec though, if it >> were the case. >> >> Regards, >> Llu?s. > > Hi Lluis, > > > What kernel are you using? The commit 722bc6b "x86/mm: Fix the size calculation of mapping tables" which started showing up in 3.5-rc1 causes problems for the crash kernel. You might try this patchset[1] from Jacob Shin and see if it resolves the problem for you if you are experiencing your problem on a 3.5-rc1+ kernel. > > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/24/474 He has updated the v5 patch set as below: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/29/227 > > Regards, > Jerry > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> kexec mailing list >> kexec at lists.infradead.org >> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec > > _______________________________________________ > kexec mailing list > kexec at lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec -- Thanks Dave
