On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Keith Owens wrote: > I am back from vacation and am now working on a common 'crash stop' > synchronization interface that can be used by all the debug[*] tools, > instead of everybody inventing their own and tripping over each other. > Obviously it is based on the KDB patch, but it will be generic enough > that anybody can use it. > > [*] Using the term 'debug' generically here. It can be a debugger like > kdb, kgdb, nlkd or a crash dump tool like lkcd, crash or kexec. > They all have the same synchronization requirements, stop all cpus > using NMI/INIT where necessary and save the state of all the cpus > for later diagnosis. Will this allow to have LKCD and kexec/kdump enabled in the same kernel, selectable by the user at boot time (via a kernel command-line option, for example)? That would be nice to have for a transition period from LKCD towards kexec/kdump while the later matures. Gerald - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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