Hi David, David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Staring at the powerpc implementation: > > /* > * Return true only when kexec based kernel dump capturing method is used. > * This ensures all restritions applied for kdump case are not automatically > * applied for fadump case. > */ > bool is_kdump_kernel(void) > { > return !is_fadump_active() && elfcorehdr_addr != ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX; > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(is_kdump_kernel); Thanks for the pointer. I would say power's version is semantically equivalent to what i have in mind for s390 :) If a dump kernel is running, but not a stand-alone one (apart from sa kdump), then it's a kdump kernel. Regards Alex