On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 01:59:19PM +0000, dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 08:19:45PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx writes: > > > > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 08:41:28AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > >> Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > >> > > >> > You can call panic notifiers and kmsg dumpers before kdump by > > >> > specifying "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" as a boot parameter. > > >> > However, it doesn't make sense if kdump is not available. In that > > >> > case, disable "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" boot parameter so that > > >> > you can't change the value of the parameter. > > >> > > >> Nacked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > I think it would make sense if he just replaced "kdump" with "kexec". > > > > It would be less insane, however it still makes no sense as without > > kexec on panic support crash_kexec is a noop. So the value of the > > seeting makes no difference. > > Can you explain more, I don't really understand what you mean. Are you suggesting > the whole "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" feature has no value ? If CONFIG_KEXEC=n, then crash_kexec() is a nop. So it does not matter whether crash_kexec() is called before panic notifiers or after. IOW, what do you gain by disabling crash_kexec_post_notifiers, in case of CONFIG_KEXEC=n? Thanks Vivek -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-metag" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
