> I think kdump_on_fatal_mca should be set to 1 by default. Fatal > mca is exactly the case where we need a dump to analyze the problem. I'm not so sure. If the fatal MCA was caused by the s/w doing something wrong (e.g. accessing non-existant memory), then a dump is useful to find out what went wrong. But if the MCA was caused by some h/w error (e.g. 2xECC bit error in kernel memory), then a dump won't help. Perhaps the dump would help distinguish the s/w case from the h/w case? -Tony -- 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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