On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 05:28:34PM -0300, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote:
> My understanding is the same as yours, i.e., this is not possible to
> collect from vmcore, it requires register reading. But again: if you
> kdump your machine today, you won't collect this information, patch
> changed nothing in that regard.
Why won't you be able to collect it? You can certainly access dmesg in
the vmcore and see those errors logged there.
> The one thing it changes is that you'd skip the altera register dump if
> kdump is set AND you managed to also set "crash_kexec_post_notifiers".
What your patch changes is, it prevents s10_edac_dberr_handler() from
logging potentially important fatal hw errors when kdump is loaded.
If Dinh is fine with that, I'll take the patch. But it looks like a bad
idea to me.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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